Clip represents washed out wandering of L.A. life set
to tune that evokes Blur, Ride, Dinosaur, Jr.
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Faris McReynolds of ExDetectives as
photographed by Maya Mercer
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“The Lawn” is the first single and video
from Take My Forever by ExDetectives
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“…a flight through the clouds. …listen
to this album over and over again.” – The Aquarian
“Why are some sounds so satisfying? Or,
as is the case with ExDetectives, so instantaneously satisfying?” – My Old Kentucky Blog
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Faris McReynolds, who alone comprises the Los Angeles-based one man
band ExDetectives, today posted the video for “The Lawn”, the first single from the debut
ExDetectives album Take
My Forever, out now on Post
Planetary Records.
The video, directed by Larisa Laivins, is a dreamy ramble through a sundrenched city. Laivins says the clip is “inspired by
being a teenager having no specific destination and just wanting to be out in
the world, checking things out, listening to music and skating down the street
or driving around aimlessly.”
The song itself is a droning wash of guitars and live
– as in not programmed – synthesizers that evoke Britpop bands such as Blur, Ride, and Elastica, as
well as first wave indie rock like Dinosaur,
Jr.
“I wanted it to be this mass of sound that stays in
place all the way through the song,” McReynolds
explains. “No dynamics, just this wide swirl of textures. It’s got loud
distorted guitars, yet it manages to come off as mellow. I’m proud of that.”
McReynolds believes that the video for “The Lawn” is true to those sounds, saying, “Much like the song
itself, it is sort of lo-fi. I like that
it looks like a home video from the 90’s and has that same washed out feeling.”
Created in a quick two-week fit of low-budget
recording (vocals were tracked in a storage closet), McReynolds plays all of the instruments (save for the drums) on Take
My Forever. It’s a radical approach to making a record that bears
itself out all the way down to the title itself. As McReynolds
states, “The title of the album says, ‘Here, you can fucking have it. Make of it
what you will.”
Faris McReynolds of ExDetectives
is available for interviews. Contact Josh
Bloom at Fanatic for more
information.
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ExDetectives
Take
My Forever
(Post Planetary – Out Now)
Track Listing:
01. Cleaner
02. The Crown
03. Can You Feel It?
05. Careless Hysterics
06. Come on Down
07. Halcyon
08. New History
09. So Long
10. It’s Better
11. Pocket Rainbow
12. Closing Bell
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ExDetectives Links
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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion
