My exact reponse email when this landed in my inbox was: "WHAT THE HELL IS THIS CRAZY?"I love it. Musically it's a mellow kind of indie-new-wave-pop. Visually it's like Klaus Nomi got hold of a Kim Kardashian contouring video, but had a rather limited palette to work with… Also what's up with the over-tongued innunciation? I'm going to have nightmares about this video.
"Sidewinder" is lifted from the LP Come Back Shane (out 10/02) and Samson the Truest is one Sam Geller. This forthcoming album is a collaboration with fellow Brooklyn-based producer Scott Thorough and apparently the album is "a whirlwind narrative of nostalgia, longing and acceptance, all of which plays out on a New York City subway platform."And the album also asks such questions as, "What are we left with after an adolescence spent crying out for our fatally wounded heroes to come back?" Luckily this imminent collection of songs also provides an answer: "An inevitable incompleteness, a disillusionment with the crashing waves of short-lived passion, and an understanding of the sustained, invisible undertow that always pulls us farther out to sea."Crikey. Someone pass me the Patron. Back to "Sidewinder" and an additional tidbit: the song features Max Comaskey from Dirty Fences on bass, Xan Aird from Public Access TV on lead guitar, and Aerial East on back-up vocals. Very nice company indeed.Kim Taylor Bennett will be not sleeping now. She'll probably be on Twitter.