WL//WH Video Of The Day: GREY CAUSEWAY “I-580” (Official Music Video)

Video Of The Day GREY CAUSEWAY

Grey Causeway is for fans of Joy Division, The Sound, Royal Headache, Pere Ubu, Wire, Mind Spiders, Radioactivity, and The Chills, and is a convergence of Oakland’s storied independent musical history, hailing from bands such as Smokers, Nuisance, The Peechees, The Pattern, Papercuts, and Jim Yoshii Pile Up.

Grey Causeway, the veteran Bay Area, Oakland, California-based Post Punk unit, made of Andy Asp (vocals, guitar, percussion), Omen Starr (guitars, keys), Frankie Koeller (bass, keys), and Chris Appelgren (drums), drops an Official Music Video for “I-580”, the first single from the upcoming self-titled debut album, “Grey Causeway,” available on vinyl and streaming May 27th via Dandy Boy Records (in association with MOUTH).

Under three minutes long, “I-580” might be one of Grey Causeway’s most Pop-oriented songs, it captures the crowded desolation of traveling along Interstate 580, the freeway that serves as a vital transportation artery through the band’s base of operations, Oakland, CA. …The song is also a psycho-geographical rumination on the concrete rivers that divide us into arbitrary categories, with the cowbell a haunting remembrance of the vast Spanish ranches that once dominated this tectonic landscape.

Energetic blast of buzzy power-pop melodicism and moody post-punk grit with an edgy punk intensity that rambles on holiday memories, propels hard-hitting, racing drum beats, taut nervous bass lines, and sharp, jagged, jangling guitar riffs, to carry powerful, scruffy vocals, contorting and crooning with high energy nostalgic devotion, through the vibrant repetitious vibrations inspired by “I-580.”

Vintage black and white imagery of San Francisco sets the sentimental backdrop for Grey Causeway as they perform “I-580” in sync with the soundtrack. Psychedelic overlays blend with historic earth quake footage and the seven Moai statues of Ahu Akivi (Easter Island), giving reverence to the past and its influence on our present time.

Grey Causeway’s self-titled debut will be released on Vinyl 12″ and Digital formats, on May 27th via Dandy Boy Records (in association with MOUTH).

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