Burial Waves has issued a new official video for “Light Heads,” a song found on their colorful Holy Ground EP debut, released last year through Dark Operative.
Formed by a cast of musicians from a wide range of acts, including Black Clouds, Pianos Become The Teeth, Caverns, The EFFECTS, and more, Burial Waves’ collective output is quintessential of the DC area, blending elements of post-rock, post-hardcore, alt/indie rock and more.
Guitarist Ross Hurt shares more about the making of “Light Heads”:
“This is the second time Burial Waves worked with Rory [Sheridan] on a video, and this time we very much turned it over to him to help bring the song into something visual. The song has some pretty dizzying moments with moments of prettiness, and that’s kind of Rory’s wheelhouse… He nailed it.”
He continues: “We’re excited to have another way to have these songs out there. We’re finally able to play them out live at some of our favorite venues with some of our favorite bands this coming week, and now we have even more to look forward to, potentially working with Rory more. Special thanks to The Showroom, Atmosphere Lighting, Fabrications Events, and Pete Duvall.
“There were two very weird aspects of this video,” drummer Jimmy Rhodes adds. “First, Rory had to shoot it while we were all needing to be socially distant in the middle of a pandemic. And if that wasn’t weird enough, this was shot in a building in downtown DC just after the riots happened Jan 6th, 2020. We were lucky that we still had access to the building, which was on the perimeter of the highly military-guarded zone of the capital. We would look outside from where we were shooting, and it felt like a military state seeing barbed wire fences and roadblocks guarding the capitol perimeter. There were literally tanks and armed guards right on the other side of the wall where we were filming. It was a very surreal experience.”
If you like what you hear, you can listen to the entire Holy Ground EP on Bandcamp.
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