WL//WH Premiere LEADVILLE
WL//WH is pleased to premiere the video for the debut single, “Keep Hoping,” by Leadville, the Perth, Australia-based “ontological dream punks”, made of Dean Anthonisz (Mile End, Mongrel Country), Nathan Savage (Bronze Savage, Coral Sculptures, These Shipwrecks), and Bruce Manai (Goodbye Forever).
To celebrate the single’s release, Leadville will perform at the Fremantle, WA Buffalo Club for the James Baker Memorial on 7 March, appearing alongside Kim Salmon. Tickets are on sale now at humanitix.com
The group pulls from a cinematic electro-acoustic sound inspired by 70s folk, country, and rock, to score the soundtrack to an imaginary road movie, evoking desolate, dusty and wide environs where time and space blur.
“Keep Hoping” moves at an unperturbed steady pace, causing heavy layers of wistful, abrasive guitar strums and angry, harsh, distorted echoing textures to increase in intensity around heartbroken, strained vocals, struggling for hope. Then, a back-up celestial soar appears, lightening the load along with glowing nostalgic keyboard tones, before a chant begins, “shine your everlasting light down on me again”, to release tension and cool the anxious heat unto a final climax where a choir of angels joins in to create a beautiful, harmonized group declaration, “I can see the light again.”
The paired visuals are a soul-stirring combination of vintage movie clips that show people in different states of mortal distress against a backdrop of an oppressive, authoritarian society. Desperate moments of attempted suicide, drowning in alcohol and drugs, and reckless joyrides overwhelm the mind’s eye with sorrow and fear before an ethereal, white and airy vision takes hold to sync with the transformation of the soundtrack.
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