White Lung Unveil New Video "Below"
Starring AnnaLynne McCord and Directed By Richard Bates Jr
Paradise - Out May 6th on Domino
NYC Release Show May 7 Plus Full U.S. Tour
Photo: Rick Rodney
With just a week to go before the release of their forthcoming album, Paradise, out onDomino May 6th, White Lung has unveiled the official music video for single "Below." "This is my Stevie-Nicks-meets-Celine Dion ballad," said lead singer Mish Barber-Way. "I needed to try to do a ballad about glamorous women. It's based on a quote by Camille Paglia from an interview she did a few years ago in Toronto. 'Beauty fades. Beauty is transient. That is why we value it,' she said. 'Feminism's failure to acknowledge that beauty is a value in itself, that even if a woman manages to achieve it for a particular moment, she has contributed something to the culture.' It's a song about the preservation of glamour and beauty." The music video stars AnnaLynne McCord along with other Marilyn Monroe look-alikes.
The video was directed by Richard Bates Jr. known for his films Suburban Gothic andExcision. Bates said of the video,"White Lung plays for an audience of impersonators who come to the realization that they've betrayed themselves in the pursuit of fame. "Below" is a love-letter to influential female artists from the past. Our video serves to reinforce the notion that what makes an artist special cannot be manufactured." Both AnnaLynne McCord and Mish Barber-Way appear in Bates' most recent film Trash Fire.
White Lung has released two tracks so far from their forthcoming album. The first, "Hungry," "is a tightly-wound, catchy-as-fuck invective played at a polished, breakneck velocity," said Pitchfork who proclaimed it 'Best New Track.' And "Kiss Me When I Bleed," which also received the BNT distinction. Now with "Below" the band has given fans yet another taste of their deepest and most mature effort to date.
White Lung kick off extensive touring on release day in Toronto, followed by a sold out Record Release show at Baby's All Right in Brooklyn, NY. Other highlights include an appearance at the inaugural Panorama Festival, Montreal's Osheaga Festival and Levitation in Vancouver.
For the making of Paradise, vocalist Mish Barber-Way, guitarist Kenneth William and drummer Anne-Marie Vassiliou reconnected in Los Angeles to work with producer Lars Stalfors (HEALTH, Cold War Kids, Alice Glass). White Lung spent a month in the studio, working closely with Stalfors to challenge what could be done with their songs. Bringing all the energy, unique guitar work and lyrical prowess the band are known for to the studio, White Lung curated their songs with a new pop sensibility, focusing in on making a record for the present - "I wanted a record that sounded like it was made in 2016", said William. Mixed by Stalfors and later mastered by Joe LaPorta, Paradise is their smartest, brightest songwriting yet.
Annie Clark a.k.a St. Vincent sat down with Mish Barber-Way and Kenneth William to discuss the making of the album and their creative process. The entire conversation can be read here.
Paradise Tracklisting:
1. Dead Weight
2. Narcoleptic
3. Below
5. Demented
6. Sister
7. Hungry
8. I Beg You
9. Vegas
10. Paradise
White Lung 2016 Tour Dates:
*=w/No Joy
^=w/Unknown Mortal Orchestra
^=w/Unknown Mortal Orchestra
May 6 || Toronto, ON - Velvet Underground (Canadian Music Week)
May 7 || Brooklyn, NY - Baby's All Right - SOLD OUT
May 24 || Brighton, UK - Green Door Store
May 25 || Bristol, UK - Start The Bus
May 26 || London, UK - Victoria
May 27 || Birmingham, UK - The Flapper
May 28 || Leeds, UK - Brudenell Games Room
May 29 || Manchester, UK - The Star & Garter
May 31 || Paris, France - Le Point Éphémère*
June 1 || Liege, BE - La Zone*
June 2 || The Hague, NL - Paard (Small Hall)*
June 3 || Amsterdam, NL - Paradiso*
June 4 || Berlin, Germany - Torstraßen Festival
June 5 || Antwerp, BE - Trix
June 17-18 || Vancouver, BC - Levitation
July 8 || Los Angeles, CA - Teragram Ballroom
July 9 || San Diego, CA - Casbah
July 10 || Phoenix, AZ - Valley Bar
July 13 || Austin, TX - The Sidewinder
July 14 || Dallas, TX - Club Dada
July 16 || St Louis, MO - The Firebird
July 18 || Bloomington, IN - Bluebird^
July 19 || Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom
July 20 || Detroit, MI - El Club
July 22-24 || Oro-Medonte, ON - WayHome Music & Arts Festival
July 24 || New York, NY - Panorama Music & Arts Festival
July 29-31 || Montreal, QC - Osheaga Festival
July 30 || Boston, MA - Brighton Music Hall
August 1 || Philadelphia, PA - Boot & Saddle
August 2 || Washington, DC - Rock & Roll Hotel
Aug 3 || Pittsburgh, PA - Club Cafe
August 4 || Columbus, OH - Big Room Bar
Aug 5 || Milwaukee, WI - Turner Hall Restaurant
August 6 || Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock Social Club
August 8 || Winnipeg, MB - The Good Will
August 10 || Calgary, AB - Commonwealth
August 12 || Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios
August 13 || Seattle, WA - Neumos
August 15 || San Francisco, CA - The Independent
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