SOM - Youth // Decay (Official Video)
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- Опубліковано 12 січ 2025
- Official music video for “Youth // Decay” by SOM from the new EP Awake, out March 12th, 2021 on Pelagic Records.
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Atmospheric rock collective SOM - comprised of current and former members of Constants, Junius, and recent Grammy nominees Caspian - will release their new EP, Awake, on March 5th.
In an era where a pandemic has forced much of the world into standstill, SOM strives to remain prolific. Following on the acclaim accrued by 2018 debut album The Fall, the quintet originally planned to use 2020 to record their anticipated follow-up. However, lockdowns forced the tireless creatives to improvise. “We were slated to enter the studio this spring to track the album,” says guitarist Mike Repasch-Nieves. “We couldn’t do that, so we decided to do some songs entirely remotely.” The result is the luscious new EP, Awake.
Combining two exclusive originals with remixes by beloved collaborators Holy Fawn, Hisself (Johnny Dang of O’Brother), U Dye (Marshall Gallagher of Teenage Wrist), and Giuseppe Capolupo (The Devil Wears Prada), the short collection is a triumph of self-described “heavy dream pop.” Its concise compositions balance the gritty riffs of Deftones with airy, Tame Impala-esque vocal lines, just as primed for rock radio success as they are for shoegaze-loving connoisseurs. “Our past projects were very exploratory,” explains drummer Duncan Rich. “With SOM, it’s a lot more focused. Creating in a pandemic has imposed limits - it’s a test of working within boundaries. How do we make something expansive, yet digestible and impactful?” The tracks are part of SOM’s ongoing mission to “leave this place better than we found it.”
In advance of the EP’s release, SOM has unveiled a striking video accompaniment to opening track, “Awake // Sedate.” Now playing at BrooklynVegan, the video was written and directed by Samia Zaidi, a queer Muslim artist and filmmaker based in the East Bay area and Los Angeles. From examining simple meditative moments to complex cross sections within our identities and the worlds we travel through, her work aims to provide a humble and vulnerable perspective that reignites the romance with all that is casual in our daily lives.
Says Repasch-Nieves of the video, “Samia’s a long-time friend, and we’d been looking for a chance to collaborate. Upon hearing the song, she almost immediately came up with this concept for the video. We let her run with it, and couldn’t be happier with the results. It feels like it echoes the emotional journeys of so many over this past year.”
Notes Zaidi, “This song feels like a dream sequence full of raw emotion, the lyrics so anchored within immediate reality. Setting out to create an audiovisual time capsule of this strange year together felt appropriate. Our goal was simple: to create a chromatic tapestry capturing just one of these endless sleepless nights we’ve been experiencing since last spring in a gritty and intimate way. I wanted to intercut our hero’s literal reality with fleeting representations of her subconscious. Color and light would play a huge role in demarcating new corners of the same space but also new corners of the same psyche. The limitations due to the pandemic were a blessing in disguise. Our shoot was beyond stripped down. This simple approach was such a beautiful way to re-experience a medium I’ve always known to be inherently complex. For anybody who’s found themselves alone in their homes free from the usual preoccupations; whose one-dimensional spaces turned into multi- verses with wormholes; who’s found new ways to experience the same walls, floors, and ceilings, I hope this resonates with you.”
Adds BrooklynVegan, “It’s thick and hazy but with soaring vocal harmonies that add a lightness to the song.”
The last part hits hard, when you least expect it, then it haunts you all day, can't get enough.
🙏
Painfully beautiful
GODDAMN THE OUTRO IS SOO GOOD
great night tune to drive too & reminisce on nostalgic memories w/ someone from past.. deftones vibes 💯
Stuff like this, deftones, the contortionist, isis, pelican, red sparrow all influence me.
HAIL YES!!! THIS COOKS...
this song had me intense times when I was facing many ups and downs back in 2022. Thank you so much.
Nice song !!! Has a Deftones feel to it
I was thinking the same thing!!! So good!!
I can see that. Really reminds me of the band Failure's older music.
A LOT!!
Was the first thing I though when heard this band
You are already on Spotify, I loved your sound!
Amazing track!! Good melodies and massive sound. I love this band.
Katatonia feat Deftones vibe to it. Can´t wait this brilliant band in 14 days with Katatonia \m/
I would love a hug...nice jam.⚘❤
What a slap on my face! Love it!
This song and video feels the pain in me .... Reminds me of the girl i loved back in 2006 in my youth now I've decayed.
Just found this band today…holy shit are they awesome
I just discovered this band with this song and it's soo good and I can't tell you why.if this is a new direction of the band I'm digging it
Awesome 🤟
So freaking good…
Please add 2 hours more of the same last riff to the album edit.
Thanks.
love this track, especially the end ♥
Love this
I like this song very very much
So good!! Has a Deftones vibe!
so listen blanket band
@@armerianordovest1858 I will! Thanks for the recommendation 🙏
Amazing sound and song!
Y'all got any more of them songs like this? Cause this sh*t is my jam and I need more. For realsies.
Really beautiful song! Has a deftones feel to it!
❤️
rosetta recommended this to me and it's fire
@Pb.778 hah, not personally - via IG stories
Cause Rosetta is the best!
Who directed this !? It’s amazing
Directed by Adam Patch, edited by Samia Zaidi. Thank you!
Kinda reminds me of the relationship between K and Joi in Blade Runner 2049.
Omg….
Junius
I need the lyrics please
our whole lives cast so clear on our faces every thought, every hope lost to aging
but i will live forever
or have i been here dead for years?
our youth passed by, it was fleeting we tell each other stories, repeating
and i will live forever
or have i been here dead for years?
a forest of lights
the dawn of time these photographs all covered in glass
Sound ..deftones...dask.and doom The gathering very cool ..
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if you "liked" it (i mean if you were hurt and you liked it) you should definitely try "heroes for ghosts" from The Gathering
Definitely try anything by The Gathering (with any of their four singers).
@@warmreset alleluia
I wonder what that he picks up is meant to be. Anyone?
reminds me of dredg in a better way. great sound.
i hate it when the songs start with a "this is the end" feeling
Ya but it’s a trancy/ambient feel that takes u somewhere whether it’s a memory or how u think of it from a feel standpoint
Карина шпак вернулась ко льву