NYC quartet S.C.A.B. recently returned with their first new material since last October’s Rose Colored Glasses EP with news of their third record, Somebody in New York Loves You!, officially set to drop a month from today via Grind Select. The latest single from the collection is a familiarly jangly and punky take on power-pop, with “Star” balancing an upbeat feel and playful vocal delivery against the lyrics’ more existentially fantastical bent. “When I shoot above your head you can wish upon me,” shares band leader Sean Camargo. “You never have to die. You can stay delusional with me. Together we are unstuck in time. Here, nothing hurts and nothing gets better. When your heart hurts, it don’t hurt forever.”
It’s a similar blend of lighthearted comedy and significantly darker undertones that defines the music video for the track, directed by Sampson Dahl. “The inevitable cycle of love and loss finds us all, often simultaneously, playing the victim and the monster,” he philosophizes while setting up the clip, which depicts precisely that—only, again, in a way that’s also very silly. “Despite efforts to absolve ourselves, pain and yearning still plot their course, trotting down familiar paths, uprooting traits and responses we may have otherwise wished laid dormant. Whether passion dwindles to a gentle halt or one commits a truly egregious act, there is no medicine for a broken bond, and if there is a renaissance, the patterns still remain. By my understanding, it is only the color of those patterns we can mitigate. Though I see this as an infinite truth of companionship, I am not discouraged by the notion. Passion is the flavor of human existence, and though a fallout may color the aftertaste, we always have control over the colors.”
Agreed, plenty of commentary about inevitable patterns of human behavior here. Also, a reanimated corpse goes down on someone. Happy Halloween!
