Musicians increasingly prefer film over digital recording for their music videos, and all the better for them. Brooklyn fuzz trio ADVAETA have a new video for their track, “Newo”, off this year’s Death and the Internet, and, even as a YouTube file, it might as well be viewed on an 80’s box TV through a VCR. The video, directed by ADVAETA’s own A/S/L visual art collective, alongside Ginny Benson, is as mystical as the sound, which utilizes delay and fuzz pedals in such a way that brings parallel universes to life. Animations in neon coatings flood over the individual members of the band, filmed primarily in negatives, among woodsy and riotous landscapes alike. Psychedelic dancing, unprovoked screaming, and calm gazes constitute the primary actions of the band, but taken with the added effects, an otherworldliness and other-timeliness, are achieved. The colors and introspectiveness of the video play as though the band wants to achieve a tangible effect of listening to their music with you palms pressing against your closed eyes, creating those flowers of color.
ADVAETA are touring through September, full list of tour dates below.
September
05 Brooklyn, NY at Shea Stadium
06 Philadelphia, PA at Everybody Hits
07 Washington DC at Babe City
08 Baltimore, MD at The Crown
09 Richmond, VA at Strange Matter
10 Raleigh, NC at Hopsctoch Music Festival
11 Asheville, NC at Static Age
12 Nashville, TN at Stone Fox
14 Chicago, IL at The Empty Bottle
15 Detroit, MI at UFO Factory
16 Toronto, ON at The Smiling Buddha
17 Montreal, QC at Pop Montreal
18 Florence, MA at 13th Floor Music Hall
19 Bennington, VT at Bennington College
20 Boston, MA at Out of the Blue
21 Providence, RI at Aurora
22 Annandale on Hudson, NY at Bard College
23 New Haven, CT at BAR
24 Kingston, NY at BSP Lounge
26 Brooklyn, NY at Alphaville
October
01 Stony Brook, NY at Stony Brook University
