When Tyler Kershaw was a young suburban kid, he did what plenty of other young suburban kids did: he made his own skate videos. Unlike most kids his age, though, Kershaw grew up to have an uncanny knack for writing autumnal dream-pop songs. His debut full-length as Funeral Advantage, last year’s Body is Dead, is a hushed affair that feels nostalgic for an era Kershaw himself is too young to have actually experienced; like The Pains of Being Pure at Heart’s Belong, the record seems to look at the past and celebrate its sense of potential rather than mourn its finality.
It’s that sound that makes the video for album single “Gardensong,” which we’re premiering this morning, so compelling. Kershaw took all of that old skate footage and edited it together. You see he and some pals set up a handful of simple driveway rails and quarter-pipes and wail away at them while the song—which sounds a bit like Mogwai‘s “Acid Food”—plays on from the future. The idyllic suburban setting and the precociousness of the footage itself lightly recall parts of Richard Linklater’s Boyhood in their high regard for the genuine and sweet sense of possibility kids still believe themselves to have. It’s hard not to cheer for the guy when he makes the move from the driveway to the skate park.
Check out the video—and Funeral Advantage’s upcoming tour dates—below.
Funeral Advantage tour dates
March
16 – Cambridge, MA @ Middle East w/ Modern Lives
17 – Albany, NY @ Fuze Box w/ Modern Lives
18 – Windsor, ON @ Milk w/ Modern Lives
19 – Toronto, ON @ D-Beastro w/ Modern Lives
20 – Ottawa, ON @ Pressed w/ Modern Lives
21 – Montreal, QC @ Casa Del Popolo w/ Modern Lives
Body is Dead is out now via The Native Sound.
