APRIL FOOL'S DAY nos dan las claves de los vídeos "Stairs and Bells" y "Occasional Sugars"

April Fool's Day ya tenían en su haber un clip fuera de lo común con "Parasol" de su anterior disco Well It's True (2012), premio del jurado al mejor videoclip en los Premios Barcelona VisualSound 2013. Pues bien, el pasado año se marcaron un EP maravilloso con Cloudless (Sello Salvaje 2013) y de él tenia que salir algo especial a la hora de reflejarlo visualmente. Así ha sido y por partida doble con una intrigante historia dividida en dos partes: los vídeos de "Stairs and Bells" y "Occasional Sugars", de la mano de la productora Nieve y dirigidos por Yago Partal.

Made In America - BIG UPS, "Eighteen Hours Of Static" (2014)

New York band Big Ups have been building up to their full-length debut Eighteen Hours Of Static, out on Tough Love/Dead Labor Records, over the past few years now. The heavy handedness of this album evokes the post-punk and hardcore era of bands like Fugazi and Black Flag and maybe some later-years Minor Threat. It certainly brings me back to those salad days. Lead singer Joe Galarraga skillfully switches between melodic singing and full out rant mode, the "loud-quiet-loud" modus operandi of the aforementioned bands, but the influences don't seem as direct as it is me automatically looking for bands to compare them to.