monDieu presents the music video ”Klerin Priest” by TV Baby, directed by Timothy Saccenti and Zachary Krevitt. The New York band is composed by Matthew McAuley and Brian McPeck, and one of the band members, Matthew McAuley (Matt), recently came to Oslo with his partner Aaron Ward representing their magazine Let’s Panic, created by creatives and printed in Verona on beautiful paper. They met with Maren Serine when they did an interview together for Uncontaminated Oslo that will be published shortly in mon Diary. The evening after the interview, Matt performed on the Let’s Panic Magazine launch in Astrup Fearnley Museet, and set the crowd of International artists and people from the cultural scene in Oslo completely on fire with his recklessness and highly contagious good energy.
Produced by Gabriel Andruzzi and mixed by Ewan Pearson, Klerin Priest by TV Baby is the second release through Deus Records, taken from their new album that releases soon, on the 12th of December this year. According to Purple Fashion that had the Klerin Priest video premiere on Purple TV in the middle of last month, this track serves to solidify TV Baby’s new sound.
The producer Gabriel Andruzzi is a multi-instrumentalist for pioneering post-punk revivalists The Rapture, and the friendship between him and band members Matt and Brian goes way back to their early, musically formative years in Washington DC. This collaboration makes the trio’s first collaboration in over ten years. The mature and advanced sound with the extreme visual expression in the video is kind of a new type of feature on monDieu. Such brutal elements and symbolism of evil spirits are rough and provoking, but is still balanced with an impressively perfected, clean aesthetic that is digitalized enough to make out a sufficient distance from the compressed darkness.
The video comes off as an important reflection of our days, and it definitely stands out with high quality. Musically, Purple Fashion points out the throbbing synths, sweeping guitar, and the lyrics that are described to be both poetic and streetwise. TV Baby have created a sound that captures both the angst and optimism of their time, and we look forward to their new album as an early Christmas present.
Credits:
Directed by Timothy Saccenti + Zachary Krevitt
Edited by Matt Posey
Additional visual effects by Tristan Wheeler
Production by Holographic Thorns
Written by TV Baby (Matthew McAuley, Brain McPeck)
Produced by Gabriel Andruzzi
Mixed by Ewan Pearson
Executive Producer Justin H. Miller
Deus Records 2016
