"After the Trade" could be about water and leaves and flowers and nature. It should be. After all, the way these visuals all soft...
"After the Trade" could be about water and leaves and flowers and nature. It shouldbe. After all, the way these visuals all softly blanket themselves on top of one another in Rachel Evans' beautiful video for the Kevin Costner Suicide Pact makes it seem like the two (music + video) are inseparable. It's a gorgeous tribute to an equally gorgeous song, which gently ebbs out as an example of the band's daring voyage into pop forms while retaining the "ambient/drone" descriptor nicely. Slowly beating harmonies, tons of space and that delicate hum beneath it all, a lone signal slowly effected and morphed, taking on a life of its own while realizing a magnificent, once-hidden potential.
However... and I'm just saying... there is a distinct possibility this song is about the band's collective lament following the 2010 Denver Nuggets' blockbuster trade ofCarmelo Anthony and Chauncey Billups.
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p.s. This is the Tome's first-ever co-premiere, and we are very excited and honored to be sharing the duties of unleashing this fantastic video and news of the band's release via recently-minted Morning Pony Recorder (an offshoot of the Ft. Collins, CO-based collective Act So Big Forest) with one of our favorite blogs, Berlin's No Fear of Pop. This one carries with it the catalog number PONY003, and signals perhaps the young label's strongest release to date while making us Tome'rs salivate for what lies ahead in an extremely promising future for Morning Pony. The album, called Standstill, is up for pre-order (here), and thank heavens. This one has been standing still for just about as long as I can stand... still for. Vinyl, fellas, get on it! Drinks all around!
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