Canadian duo cleopatrick have shared a music video for their new single VICTORIA PARK, taken from their recently released debut album BUMMER.
The band comment:
“FROM THE MOMENT WE WROTE VICTORIA PARK WE KNEW IT WOULD BE THE OPENING TRACK ON BUMMER. IT’S THE SONIC MISSION STATEMENT FOR OUR DEBUT ALBUM. IT’S OUR THESIS. OUR FIRST IMPRESSION. THE PROVERBIAL ICE BREAKER. IT’S NAMED AFTER A REAL VICTORIA PARK HERE IN COBOURG ONTARIO CANADA. A PLACE WHERE IAN AND I HAVE BOTH SPENT COUNTLESS SUMMER DAYS AND NIGHTS THROUGHOUT OUR LIVES. IT’S A GREEN SPACE THAT WAS NAMED AFTER QUEEN VICTORIA IN AN EFFORT TO IMPRESS THE CROWN, DURING A TIME WHERE THIS TOWN WAS SO YOUNG AND PROSPEROUS THAT THEY TRULY BELIEVED THEY COULD BE CHOSEN AS THE CAPITAL OF CANADA.
“STANDING HERE TODAY IN WHAT IS NOW A SLEEPY RURAL RETIREMENT COMMUNITY, I FEEL A STRANGE SENSE OF TRAGEDY LINGERING AROUND THIS PARK. IN MY EYES, IT IS A MONUMENT TO A LONG LOST AMBITION, AND FOR THAT REASON, IT INSPIRES ME.
“THIS SONG, AND THE ALBUM IT COMES FROM, IS OUR OFFERING. IT’S OUR EFFORT TO IMPRESS. MAKING ‘BUMMER’, WE ACTIVELY SPOKE ABOUT IT AS IF IT WOULD BE THE ONLY CHANCE WE EVER HAD TO MAKE AN ALBUM. WITH THIS IN THE BACK OF OUR MINDS, EVERY NOTE WE PLAYED AND EVERY LINE I PENNED CARRIED A TREMENDOUS WEIGHT. ‘BUMMER’ IS MEANT TO CAPTURE WHAT COULD BE OUR “FAMOUS LAST WORDS.”
“IT’S MEANT FOR US AS MUCH AS IT’S MEANT FOR OUR AUDIENCE. IT’S OUR TIME CAPSULE. IT’S OUR VOYAGER-1. IT’S OUR VICTORIA PARK.
“THE VIDEO WAS CONCEPTUALISED BY US, AND DIRECTED BY OUR FRIEND BOY WONDER. IT WAS SHOT ON A SNORRI RIG THROUGHOUT DOWNTOWN COBOURG, IT’S BEACH, AND OF COURSE VICTORIA PARK. IT’S MEANT TO CAPTURE THE CHAOTIC, MONOTONOUS, AND EXPLOSIVE ENERGY OF THE SONG, WHILE PERSONIFYING THE CONCEPTS OF ISOLATION, UNCERTAINTY, AND INNER CONFLICT THROUGH ITS PROTAGONIST – PLAYED BY OUR DEAR FRIEND JAMES EDWARD CAMPBELL.”
BUMMER is out now via the band’s own label Nowhere Special Recordings, available to stream or purchase HERE.
