New Video: Mary Shelley - Bourgeois De Ville

 

📸 MADELYN BARKOCY

The dust has began to settle and has landed in the shape of some of the most exciting new music from all over the world. I'm trying to make sense of last weekend and the joys that occurred at FOCUS Wales 2024. There is going to be plenty more of that to wade through in the coming weeks, you'll just have to be patient; I've got to wait for my internal organs to start working properly first.

One of the star turns of FOCUS Wales 2023 were a band I gravitated towards like a moth looking for man-made moons. I've talked a lot about Brooklyn art rockers Mary Shelley in the last 12 months, I even interviewed them on Zoom and wrote about it HERE. Then it turned out to be such an entertaining listen that I made it the first episode of The Partisan Contingent - our new music/interview/apocalypse playlist podcast. You can listen to that HERE.

It's been a crazy year for the band since. Summer single 'Goin' to the Beach' managed to combine musical elements of Devo, The B52s and The Monkees in one stupidly fun single. Later in the year, they released 'She's a Star', a soaring guitar pop anthem that harked back to the early 2000s'; a time where Brooklyn was the centre of the indie rock world. Both will appear on the band's soon to be released - as yet untitled - second album.

Earlier this year, they went to SXSW in Austin, Texas and performed an eye-watering 12 shows in 6 days and won further hearts and minds with their frantic live shows. One of those collection of differing organs was Eugene Hutz; lead singer and legendary front man of Gogol Bordello. He was so impressed by the band that he asked them to support him on one of GB's New Year shows and has invited them to support on a tour of the west coast of the U.S from the end of May. 

As a preview to this tour, Hutz got the band to re-record and re-release their incendiary debut single 'Bourgeois De Ville' which he has released on the Casa Gogol label. Backed by a cover Talking Heads classic 'The Great Curve'; The track has a new video, that encapsulates the oneupmanship of social situations and where trying to present the best image of ourselves in the real world, often spills into pretension. See the video below:

          

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