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California Rules, Everything Else Drools in the New Video for Be Calm Honcho's "I Love California"

Let's all talk about how much we love San Francisco.

Photo credit: Joelle Wagner

There are a lot of songs about California. There are even more songs about loving California. We get it. California rules, everywhere else drools. No one over on the West Coast is freezing their tits off in the winter or dripping in sweaty humid sadness in the summertime. It's surprising how many bands talk about loving this place in the most generic ways. (Looking at you Best Coast: "We've got the ocean / Got the babes / Got the sun / We've got the waves." Well no shit, Bethany Cosentino.)

The music landscape for songs about California—and lately, most songs with guitars about anything—consists of unintelligible lyrics that are blown out with reverb, consequently sounding like the band is trapped in a well with a bunch of expensive pedals. But with lyrics like, "The girls descended down from the clouds of San Francisco, window drinking limbs for better tracing pelicans," Bay Area-based quartet BE CALM HONCHO shake the mold and win the award for "Best-Song-About-California-That-Actually-Has-Good-Lyrics," which is a fun award I just came up with.

Anyway, Noisey is excited to premiere the band's new video below for "I Love California," the single from their debut album Honcho Dreams out June 24 via Crossbill Records. The video features a bunch of goddess-like babes in pastels sitting on rocks and a dude shredding guitar in the middle of an inner tube in a lake. There's a lot of singing while riding bikes in rad outfits and dudes wearing capes on skateboards. If you're in the Bay Area, be sure to catch this eclectic bunch at The Rickshaw Stop on July 2 for their record release show with Noisey alums, The She's.

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