Bent Knee have been making music together for nearly a decade, so it’s high time for what vocalist/keyboardist Courtney Swain calls their “We’ve-been-around-the-block-and-we’re-ready-to-make-our-mark” album. The today-released You Know What They Mean appears to be just that, capturing the Boston-based six-piece at their most confident.
With the full LP hitting stores and streaming services today, the band is placing a proverbial cherry on top with a hallucinatory video for the song “Catch Light” directed by Adam Peditto and producer by TWIABP’s Katie Dvorak. There’s as much going on visually as there is musically, with “Creep”-like guitar—which ultimately buzzes and pounds in a distinctly Daughtersly way—intruding on Swain’s straight pop vocals being set to footage of a dancer manipulated to resemble a limb-rich Hindu goddess.
“On this album we wanted to do more with less,” explains Vince Welch, who plays guitar and keys and produces for the band. “For ‘Catch Light,’ we traded some of the more cerebral forms and rhythms we’ve used in the past for something more guttural. We’re really happy with how director Adam and Katie captured this approach in their video as well.”
You Know What They Mean is out today via InsideOutMusic (Sony). You can order it here.
