WL//WH Video Of The Day DENDRONS
Chicago experimental rockers Dendrons return with a DIY video for the first single, “Tuck Me Under,” from their forthcoming third studio album, “Indiana,” due out on November 17, 2025, via Candlepin Records.
Formed in 2018 by childhood friends Dane Jarvie (lead vocals, guitar, synths) and Zak Sprenger (guitar, synths), the band, on the strength of DIY bookings and homebrew recordings, soon expanded to a five-piece and relesed two LPs, while, in their wake, toured extensively the US, Canada, Mexico, Europe, and the UK.
The band conceives an intoxicating mix of unpredictable and multifaceted guitar pop rooted in noise and haunted by ghosts of post-punk.
After a long hiatus since the well-received latest 2022 full-length, “5-3-8,” on the Innovative Leisure label, the quintet comes up again with a reinvented and refined sonic palette through a more diverse pool of influences among band members. Songs were demoed, scrapped, rewritten, and painstakingly scrutinized over the span of two years.
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Reminiscent of the lopsided, changeable and disorienting pop-laced psychedelic nature of Flaming Lips or Mercury Rev, the song, stirred by feelings of loss, confusion, and heartache, with no resolution in sight, triggers dreamy agitated vocals, to wistfully brood atop vibrant shuffling drum beats and moody humming bass pulses, winding erratically together with a surreal colourful concoction of anxious guitar loops, acoustic scrapes, groovy riffs, fluorishing emotive strings, and whimsy keyboard flitters, slowing down into a submerged and fading, mellifluous lysergic interlude, to reappear on the surface with a renewed expressive energy.
The paired DIY visuals begin with the viewpoint of sprouting up from the dirt in a cornfield under a sunny sky. Next, the band stops at different locations in Indiana with pink smiley face frisbees over their faces, and the word smile flashes on the screen. Comedic poses combine with beautiful scenes of communing with nature and symbolic organic imagery to bring forth a sense of moving forward, out of a storm, syncing seamlessly with the turmoil of the soundtrack.
Dendrons’ third album, “Indiana,” is scheduled for November 17, 2025, via Candlepin Records.
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