Video Of The Day RYLI
Bay Area Indie group Ryli warm up for the June 27th release of their debut album, “Come and Get Me”, with an Official Music Video directed by Staci DeGagne for the second excerpt, “Break,” via Oakland-based DIY label Dandy Boy Records.
The California foursome, led by vocalist Yea-Ming Chen (Yea-Ming and The Rumours) and guitarist Rob Good (The Goods), and buoyed by the rhythm section of Luke Robbins (Yea-Ming and The Rumours, R.E. Seraphin) and Ian McBrayer (ex-Healing Potpourri), fuels their music with friendship and a love of classic pop songwriting.
Urgent skittering drumming and bubbling basslines unremittingly propel forward a vibrant and affecting quick shifting interlace of swaying sparkling guitars, strumming and jangling with pain-filled injections of wistful searing fluorishes, amped up by a slightly distorted excruciating outro, to sharpen the helpless anxiety of heartfelt vocals, layered with ominous spectral back-ups, pleading for support amid the endless rising tides.
photo by Staci DeGagne
Cinematic visuals, directed by Staci DeGagne and edited by Alexander Fletcher, star Yea-Ming Chen as a stylish suburban housewife whose monotonous lifestyle turns into a mental tragedy. The cinematography by Heather MacLean uses a beautiful blend of symbolic colors and lighting to build an evocative, psychological setting where Rob Good, Luke Robbins, and Ian McBrayer play instruments as spectral supporting characters. But it is Chen’s on-point desperation, as she struggles to hold on to sanity, that syncs seamlessly with the soul-stirring sentimentality of the soundtrack.
Ryli‘s new single, “Break,” is out now on the major sharing platforms, while the band’s debut album, “Come and Get Me,” will follow on Vinyl 12″/CD & Digital formats, through Dandy Boy Records on June 27th.
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