Boston Viral Video is on vacation for the next two weeks. In its stead, Nick Curran will bring us a collection of quality music videos released by bands in Boston. Hooray for Earth have a fun weekend away, the Everyday Visuals break the 9-5 barrier, and the Wonderful Spells envision themselves as vampires. Check it!
This song evokes images of nascent stars in celestial fields. The video couldn’t be more different. It reinvents the omg-party-in-the-woods-weekend slasher film cliché using Hooray For Earth as the fun loving but eternally damned cast. Included: Slo-mo, apathetic close-ups of rock and roll stars and one hell of a cliffhanger ending.
Everyday Visuals - Dance and Holler
“Dance and Holler” is written in the vein of Sufjan Stevens; a near-whisper fronting warm-by-the-fire, descending arpeggios that resolve on the perfect note. The chorus is guttural in its emotive tug, and the visuals—watching people disappointed by the Department of Happiness, trying to visualize their dreams as cartoons on blank pieces of paper —are poignant in that happy-sad kind of way. And the conclusion: The Everyday Visuals as DoH employees, breaking their bureaucratic boundaries and air-guitarings for a crowd of recently depressed people. Brilliant.
The Wonderful Spells - Vermillion
The Spells play some of the most infectious guitar rock in Boston. (Unfortunately, they’re taking a short hiatus, while Bo plays bass with Pretty & Nice.) This video is the Spells as vampires, acting on their assumed dreams of hedonistic conquest. Cheesy, campy, wonderful. Shot by Louie Jannety, who is also involved in bands all over town.
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