Hope Sandoval's black metal video
“Trouble”
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In perhaps a dying gasp, MySpace erupted in an RSS spasm, clogging my feed with thousands of posts. I’d delete it all, but some of the news is actually timely. So I am sorting through countless band MySpace updates from years ago and screwing up my internal clock big-time.
Thus I stumbled across this video for “Trouble” by Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions, from their album Through the Devil Softly. The record came out in 2009, but I didn’t hear of it until now. (Following Sandoval was evidently an intention hitherto unfulfilled.) I liked Sandoval’s (it’s weird to type that and not mean Pete – funny how some people can occupy names completely) first solo record, Bavarian Fruit Bread, but I heard it in a past life. Sandoval has hardly crossed my mind since.
“Trouble”‘s video changes that. It has some of the most black metal-esque imagery I’ve seen in a while. One could easily swap in isolationist black metal for the audio – Amesoeurs, say, or Velvet Cacoon. Those endless hallways remind me of the video for Foscor’s “I Tornà de les Cendres” (commentary here). Blurry staircases recall the cover of Mazzy Star’s She Hangs Brightly; inverted colors evoke vintage horror films. Maybe this is the comedown after Negative Plane’s frenetic psychedelia.
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