The Beverleys release ‘Visions’ video featuring Dilly Dally + HSY

The Beverleys have released the video for their single Visions. Directed by Henry Sampson, the video features cameos from Katie Monks (from Dilly Dally), Brandon Lim (from HSY) and several other familiar faces from the Toronto music scene. Check it out via YouTube below.

The single will appear on the band’s forthcoming debut full length, ‘Brutal,’ and sees the band expand on the sound of their earlier releases, upping the production values courtesy of Josh Korody (Wish, Fucked Up, Beliefs), adding Breeders-esque pop melodies to their Hole and Babes in Toyland inflected grunge punk, and foregrounding Susan Burke’s inimitable snarl.

According to Burke, despite the track’s anthemic feel, the song was borne from a place of anxiety. “We spent a summer together in a house in the countryside of Niagara getting up to lots of no good and that’s where I wrote this song.” says Burke, “I’m always afraid of things unseen, and I saw a lot of that there in the shadows of the woods in the middle of the night. Eyes in the trees, animal howls, maybe movements in the dark, maybe just fear, paranoia, anxiety. No doubt it’s tied to the feeling of being threatened by relationships and things in my own life at the time – who demands what of me, who makes me feel guilty and for what, a sense of being under attack and a disappointment. There’s a numbness and a boredom in constantly feeling this way, and as time passes by with these feelings and nothing changes you want to feel propelled into action and get the hell away.”

Visions will appear on The Beverley’s debut LP, ‘Brutal,’ due out via Buzz Records on November 6.

Track list:

1. Bad Company 
2. Kissing with Braces 
3. Anyway 
4. Visions 
5. Stamp Glue
6. Lemonade 
7. Hush 
8. Spaced 
9. Promises 
10. Hoodwink

More on The Beverleys? The Beverleys are a three-piece band signed to Buzz Records comprised of sisters Steph and Joanna Lund and Susan Burke. Formed in 2010 the band rapidly ingratiated themselves with Toronto’s music scene with punishing early live sets in basements, artist’s studios and galleries, distinguishing themselves among their sludge punk peers with both their fevered intensity and deft songwriting. In 2012 they recorded an appropriately lo-fi EP with Fucked Up’s Ben Cook, before delivering a more fully realized effort in 2014 which Pitchfork described as “a rollicking barrage of molasses-thick riffs and rambunctious drums” while likening the band to The Stooges and labelmates HSY. The band followed the EP with the single Hoodwink which received praise from Noisey and Pitchfork among others and embarked on their first US tour with HSY, as well as a pair of dates supporting Danish punks Iceage.

For more information on The Beverleys, visit facebook.com/thebeverleysband.