Oxbow "Icy White & Crystalline" (Official Video)

The second single from Oxbow's new album, Love's Holiday: https://oxbow.lnk.to/love

Directed by Kiran Acharya (  / whoismrbishop  )

Directed by Northern Irish filmmaker Kiran Acharya, the video for "Icy White & Crystalline" shows Oxbow as you've never seen them before, performing in San Francisco on the disused set of The Snow Queen. The video not only captures the band's ferocious live energy, but literally shows them in a new light. "Icy White & Crystalline is about as spontaneous as filmmaking can be," says Acharya. "We had many ideas on the go, including an abstract graphic approach inspired by the work of Josef Albers. But Eugene found the set of The Snow Queen with 24 hours to go and said "this is the place". We loaded in, set up as live, strapped an icicle to the microphone and went for it." The result speak's to Oxbow's formidable reputation as performers, showcasing one of the most direct songs on Love's Holiday. Neither the band nor director knew how things would turn out, joking that they ended up with something like 'Shiny Happy People, directed by David Lynch'.

About the making of the video Eugene S. Robinson comments, "Funny going all the way to a UK-based filmmaker/journo from Belfast in Kiran Acharya for directing the video for Icy White & Crystalline but if you take the same elements and expect something different, you're on the road to madness. Which is precisely why we used wildly disparate elements to visualize our first "live" music video for Love's Holiday. Sixteen takes all the way through...'you don't know how...hearts burn" is the opening lyric. For probably the best of all reasons here: this video almost killed us to make."

Niko Wenner continues, "Icy White & Crystalline” began as a blown-out ferocious rehearsal phone-recording we've aimed to match in high fidelity, the bridge another improv, the two joined make a classic Oxbow banger we’ll doubtless rock live for as long as we plug-in. Enjoy!"

Check out the first single "1000 Hours (ft. Roger Joseph Manning Jr.)" at    • Oxbow "1000 Hours" (Official Video)  

OXBOW LIVE DATES
Sunday, June 16, 2024 CH Zurich X-tra w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Monday, June 17, 2024 IT Milan Magnolia w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Tuesday, June 18, 2024 DE Munich Feierwerk
Wednesday, June 19, 2024 DE Berlin Huxleys w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Friday, June 21, 2024 FR Bourlon Rock In Bourlon
Saturday, June 22, 2024 NL Den Haag Paard
Sunday, June 23, 2024 LUX Luxembourg Atelier w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Monday, June 24, 2024 NL Tilburg O13 w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Tuesday, June 25, 2024 DE Karlsruhe Jubez
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 CH Geneva Cave12
Thursday, June 27, 2024 FR Gigors-et-Lozeron CBGC
Friday, June 28, 2024 FR Pau La Ferronnerie

Love’s Holiday cover by Aaron Turner

Love’s Holiday track listing:
1. Dead Ahead
2. Icy White & Crystalline
3. Lovely Murk
4. 1000 Hours
5. All Gone
6. The Night The Room Started Burning
7. “ “
8. Million Dollar Weekend
9. The Second Talk
10. Gunwale

Love’s Holiday pre-orders, including limited-edition indie exclusive red and Ipecac.com marbled grey vinyl variants, as well as standard vinyl, CD and digital, are available now: https://oxbow.lnk.to/love.
 
OXBOW is Dan Adams (electrical/acoustic bass), Greg Davis (drums/percussion), Eugene S. Robinson (vocals), and Niko Wenner (guitars/pianos). The San Francisco-born band have released seven studio albums since their inception in 1988, with Pitchfork saying the foursome have released “some of the most eccentric heavy music albums ever.”

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