As if our Last.fm scrobbles haven’t already taken a big enough hit this year between an endless output of incredible metal albums and the unearthing of that seemingly unearthable Godspeed! cassette, post-rock innovators Yoo Doo Right have announced a new album with the whopping lead single “Feet Together, Face Up, on the Front Lawn” clocking in at nearly 17 minutes. The track has more in common with GY!BE than just its runtime—compared with last year’s Don’t Think You Can Escape Your Purpose, it gravitates away from the krautrock of the band’s namesake in favor of theatrical soundscapes while keeping their vocals intact.
Arriving alongside the track is a music video—well, more of an experimental short film—directed by Mackenzie Reid Rostad which sets the eerie soundtrack to an equally eerie and hardly definable series of images. “The track’s title and those for the rest of the album really echo this general desire to transcend this something as manifest in the proliferating enclosures of the visible (fences, power lines, highways, etc.) and non-visible (frontiers, thresholds) world,” Rostad shares. “The entire video was shot with a thermal camera and beyond the materiality of the image (light/heat and visible/non-visible), its very existence is a fragment of the latter, as this kind of technology has been developed and heavily deployed in the service of private property and national frontiers.”
Check that out below, and pre-order the album here.
