Baroque-pop trio Other Lives have a busy 2015 ahead, with a new full-length, Rituals, due May 4 and a bevy of North American tour dates shortly thereafter (including a June 13 gig at Tulsa’s Cain’s Ballroom). But the Stillwater product isn’t resting on its laurels, premiering a new video today for Rituals single “Reconfiguration,” a song previously heard in non-video form.
Vocalist Jesse Tabish described the allegorical nature of the video, which obscures the line between fencing and modern dance, to Noisey:
“We knew we wanted to depict the battle between our primal nature as humans and our desire to be civil and harmonious, but we weren’t sure how we wanted to visually represent that,” Tabish said. “Ollie Wolf, a director out of London, came to us with the idea and we thought it was a great fit, and certainly one we never would have thought of, which made us drawn to it even more. We felt like the contrast between the aggression displayed in fencing and elegance in dance was interesting way to represent the inner conflict the song was written about.”
I hereby dub this new art form “fancing.” (Patent pending.)
Tickets for Other Lives’ Cain’s Ballroom date are available via Ticketfly.
