Blonde Diamond Share "Strange Times" Video via The Big Takeover | New Track Out Now Via All DSPS, Look Out for Debut Album This Year

Blonde Diamond Share "Strange Times" Music Video via The Big Takeover Read the MXDWN, Psychedelic Baby, Ghost Cult Magazine, and Folk N Rock Features New Track Out Now on All DSPS Look Out For Debut Album This Year Video Still by Brandon Fletcher

LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Blonde Diamond - "Strange Times" Stream / YouTube LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Blonde Diamond - "Red Flags" Stream / YouTube "As the video unfolds, viewers are bombarded by a chaotic collage of fantastical scenes from a parallel universe, drenched in Technicolor and speckled with anything from intergalactic pop art, geometric shapes, and even jungle creatures. Despite the lush scenery, though, disaster is quickly on the way." - The Big Takeover "Singles like 'Strange Times' show that Blonde Diamond are a dream-pop force to be reconned with, and it will be one hell of a ride for the fans." - MXDWN "The dreamy synth-pop track’s accompanying video is something from a completely different astral plane" - Folk N Rock "It’s a sardonic, slinky ode to hedonism – living it up while the world feels like it’s ending. Sound like anyone you know?" - Backseat Mafia "The track features spirited drums, wistful guitars and vibrant bass [...] a rich synth-pop sound that is simply mesmerizing." - EARMILK "Blonde Diamond have been on a trajectory that is hard not to be dazzled by." - Le Future Wave "'4AM Eternal' drips with dreamy electro-pop, the band’s ethereal sound propped up by Alexis Young’s seductive vocals." - 3AM Revelations "It’s dreamy, dark pop at its best with fleshed out, forward-thinking electronica and hints of the 60s and 80s." - Neon Music "'4AM Eternal' rides emerging electronic swirls of color, gleaming with sensuous textures, and then flows into a vibrant electro-pop melody rife with dreamy, carnal hues, oozing on tumescent tendrils of ethereal mists. The arpeggiated bassline imbues the harmonics with surging depth, as the crisp tight percussion adds to the infectious rhythmic pulse." - Rawckus Today, Blonde Diamond shares a music video for their brand new single, "Strange Times," which is out now via all DSPS. Speaking on the music video, Alexis Young wrote: "Lyrically, the song 'Strange Times' takes place in a fantastical parallel universe, so it only made sense that the video should represent that. We chose to use a bright and dreamy palette to provide a luxurious backdrop for our characters to obliviously dance away on. As it becomes clear through elements of foreshadowing that there is a clear impending doom, we ignore the signs and carry on. In the background as we see chaos and destruction unfold, we try to keep the dream alive until we become swallowed and it reveals that the universe goes on without us, unaffected. Strange times indeed." Director Brandon William Fletcher continued: "The video itself was a trip, the story sort of sprang into existence of its own accord. I spent a month in pre-pro building visuals and scenes (about 70% of which wouldn’t even make it into the video) before a single image was even shot. Once we completed production there was a bunch of back-and-forth with the band, this really collaborative atmosphere of world-building to uncover our story. At the heart of it for me, I think, was the myth of Icarus (and indeed the current state of the world as it stands); humanity’s hubris taking us to the brink and this cognitive dissonance where we’re unable or unwilling to see the seriousness of our situation so we just keep dancing. All presented in this glossy, magazine format, where each image is vying for your attention more than the previous, conveniently distracting you from reality. Additional inspiration came from artists like Hiroshi Nagai, Eizin Suzuki, and Hiroshi Takahara who really seemed to define the look of the Japanese 'city pop' genre, and architect Luis Barragán." Last fall, Blonde Diamond shared a brand new single entitled “Red Flags," alongside an accompanying horror-inspired music video, which was also directed by Brandon William Fletcher. Blonde Diamond - "Strange Times" BLONDE DIAMOND LINKS Website | Facebook | Twitter | Soundcloud | Bandcamp | Instagram | YouTube