This morning, Pink Mountaintops debuted the video for their latest single, “The Second Summer of Love,” off of their fourth studio album, Get Back, on Entertainment Weekly.
The Canadian rock trio uses the eye of director Brook Linder to create a four-minute medley that throws all the iconic images of adolescence into a time-warping blender. Skateboards engulfed in flames, rusted jalopies ridden by longhaired rebels, mailboxes flying off their posts—hit by the longhaired rebels riding said rusted jalopies; the video is a melting pot of twenty-somethings who belong anywhere from the ’70s to the late ’90s. The track playing behind these kids is a garage-rock anthem: a call to the youths of America to revolt and retaliate—to light their boards on fire and sip deeply from the Slurpee of life. “The Second Summer of Love” includes the growling vocals and fuzzy guitar lines almost cliché to the music that the youths of these decades grew up on—the music their forbears hated and didn’t understand. Yet, Pink Mountaintops breaks down this stereotype by hurling it in our faces. Suddenly, the trio’s “Second Summer of Love” and its visual aid become something fresh and energizing, no longer wrinkled and tired by decades of being reused.
Pink Mountaintops’ Polaris Prize long-listed album Get Back is out now on Jagjaguwar.
