Music News - Earmilk premieres Andrew Keoghan's gender-bending new video
29 June 2016 - 0 Comments
American music publication Earmilk is
premiering Andrew
Keoghan's latest single Queues
at Dani Keys; a gender-bending nod to the 'new romantic' videos of the eighties.
Directed by Auckland VFX whiz Puck
Murphy, who has made videos for The Phoenix Foundation, the Queues At Dani Keys clip is a quantum fashion piece; a multi-dimensional nightclub, where one's
alter ego seduces its' other façade, in a wry commentary on vanity, reinvention
and the perils of big city ambition.
The song will feature on Keoghan's second L.P Every Orchid Offering, out July 29 on
Fuchsia Kick and like the rest of the album, demonstrates a percussion-heavy
approach. It features New York's Brazilian percussionist Marivaldo Dos
Santos, who has worked with Sting, The Fugees and Lauryn Hill.
Predominantly written during a two-month period of isolation on west coast
beach, Piha, the album is a collection of 10 songs that seek to make sense of a
peripatetic existence between New Zealand and New York, where Keoghan relocated
in 2013. It's a series of personal vignettes about transience, sexuality,
conceived gender roles, commitment, lust and modern reincarnation, combining a
pop sensibility with contemporary R&B, electronic and orchestral elements.
The video for the first single Stuck
In Melodies premiered on Stereogum in January and transported the audience to a pastel hell dreamscape inspired by
‘90s computer graphics, pop art and the song's themes of interrelationship
detachment and nostalgic comfort.
'If anything, it reminds
me of David Bowie’s similarly genreless ★ or the work of Kirin J Callinan, but possessed by an exquisite
chamber-pop grace befitting Grizzly Bear or Dirty Projectors. This thing is a
gorgeous piece of music' – Stereogum
The album features duets with Hollie
Fullbrook (Tiny Ruins) and Chelsea Nikkel (Princess Chelsea),
along with contributions from some of Keoghan's other cohorts from The Ruby Suns, The Phoenix
Foundation and Lawrence
Arabia.
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