Yeasayer
“Ecstatic Baby” Music Video
Directed by PandaPanther
Add date – 06/13/19
About Yeasayer
Brooklyn’s Yeasayer have indeed covered more musical ground than ten bands twice their size since they busted out with the double A-side of “Sunrise” and “2080”, but it’s not just because they can. It’s more like they have no choice. From 2007’s All Hour Cymbals to 2016’s Amen & Goodbye, each album has been a meticulously planned and beautifully executed escape from their comfort zone. For more than a decade, they’ve expertly plucked themes, structures, and sonics from their galaxy of influences. They’ve cranked out pop soundscapes made of rhythmic Worldbeat, dancey thump, wall-of-sound psych rock, prog, even Middle Eastern and Celtic music. With “Ecstatic Baby,” core founding members Chris Keating, Anand Wilder, and Ira Wolf Tuton have once again created something sure to see them back on the stages of Lollapalooza, Pitchfork, Coachella, Reading, and Leeds.
About the video
“Ecstatic Baby” sounds exactly how you think a song called “Ecstatic Baby” is going to sound – it’s a straight-up celebration, a spiritual freak-out in the name of Love. It’s a three-minute, pure rush of deep grooves and melodic synth swells; its loopy, disco Bollywood feel is layered with Yeasayer’s famously rock-solid harmonizing. The first single off of Erotic Reruns, their fifth full-length, is a wild respect-is-due nod to NYC rhythmic No-Wavers and dance-punks like Liquid Liquid and ESG. That slide-whistle hook and bunny-hop bass make the angelic, perfect vocals even more starry-eyed and romantic as hell.
Directed and produced by NYC’s PandaPanther, the video for “Ecstatic Baby” is all upheaval and adventure, you know, kind of like Love itself. Unlike Love itself, there are giant spiders, forbidding alien landscapes (think Beetlejuice), unstable energy fields, and a huge caterpillar who’s totally cool with giving the guys a ride. The year-old creative shop uses pointedly ramshackle, throwback CGI full of fever dream grotesqueries to cut-and-paste the video’s world and narrative. From scene to scene, the visuals and action veer between dark and light – is it a long-shot rescue mission, or perhaps a religious ritual gone off the rails? Either way, it’s an immersive, unpredictable, strangely beautiful journey with a killer soundtrack. Come to think of it, that’s what being a Yeasayer fan has been like all these years.
Want more from Yeasayer and HIP Video Promo?
Yeasayer are longtime friends of HIP Video Promo, and we’re delighted to team up with them, as well as the folks at Park The Van Records, to share “Ecstatic Baby” with the world! Please let us know what we can do to ensure this video is included in your regular programming and online presentations, or if you’d like us to send some merch for on-air contests and giveaways. The new album Erotic Reruns is out now, and Yeasayer will be on tour all summer so check out their website to see if they’ll be in your area. Contact Andy Gesner and the HIP Video Promo crew at 732-613-1779 or email us at info@HIPVideoPromo.com for more info, or head to www.Yeasayer.band for tour dates and more.
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