After doing their part to revive the Paisley Underground sound with a series of jangly EPs (culminating in 2024’s shoegazy team-up with Spiral XP), Washington’s TV Star will soon unleash their debut album Music for Heads. It’s an apt title, given the various bygone pockets of cultish guitar-forward power-pop evoked by their music, yet at the same time these songs’ catchy riffs and textural sense of dreaminess make them inviting to anyone unaquainted with The Dream Syndicate or The Bangles.
Today TV Star are sharing the record’s second single and album opener, “The Package,” which is more expansive and anthemic than the preceding “Texas Relation.” “The song, I believe, was the last that we wrote ahead of recording, but ended up setting the tone for the entire record,” shares guitarist Che Hise-Gattone. “This is also the song that everyone was crying [to] in the studio when Ash was recording vocals.”
The visual for the track was directed by Hise-Gattone and fellow guitarist Bryan Coats (both of whom are also members of the aforementioned Spiral XP), and it pairs shots of the band strumming through the song in a sunny, open field with scenes of the quintet spending an evening at the local fair, with the images’ grainy quality only abetting its overwhelming sense of nostalgia for bygone summer evenings. “The video was shot in September of last year,” Hise-Gattone notes. “We wanted to evoke a dreamy feeling of recalling late-summer memories for the viewer. We filmed half on Hi-8 and half on Super 8, which really added to the dreaminess and helped add a familiar, almost home-movie vibe and really solidified this video as the perfect visual companion to the song.”
Check out the video below, and pre-order Music for Heads here before it lands April 24 via Father/Daughter.
