It’s been an exciting 6 months for Casper Skulls since the release of their debut LP ‘Mercy Works’. The album, which was released via Buzz Records
last November, received praise from places like NPR, Noisey, Billboard, MTV, and FADER, and set the Toronto band on months of touring across North America, sharing stages with the likes of Land of Talk, Weaves, Charly Bliss, And The Kids and Shame.
Casper Skulls have shared the video for Colour of the Outside, a track lifted from their debut. It’s the second new video from the band, following their Audiotree session which premiered on Noisey, and according to Casper Skulls’ Neil Bednis, was filmed in the basement of a copy center in his hometown of Sudbury, Ontario, a setting that resonates with the songs dystopian themes. Check out the Colour of the Outside video via YouTube below.
“Lyrically Colour of the Outside was a real collaborative effort between Melanie and I,” Bednis tells BrooklynVegan. “We wanted to depict a dystopian future; a feeling of helplessness and anxiety. Once we actually started performing the song we realized that the song more so depicts the time we’re living in now.”
“The video for the song was completely Shawn Kosmerly’s brainchild. We drove up to our hometown in Sudbury, ON and filmed the video in the basement of a copying center. Shawn reflected how we wrote the song by having the first half being shot in what appears to be some sort of weird room and then cutting to the reality in which we’re just in a warehouse. He did a bunch of cool things like the first shot which is a curtain filmed super close up with weird lighting or in the bridge taking a piece of broken glass and passing it in front of a mirror creating a cool split screen/moving motion.”
Casper Skulls’ ‘Mercy Works’ is out now via Buzz Records. It’s available for purchase here.
Tracklist
1. Mercy Works
2. You Can Call Me Allocator
3. Lingua Franca
4. What’s That Good For
5. Primeval
6. Colour of the Outside
7. Chicane, OH
8. I Stared at “Moses and the Burning Bush”
9. The Science of Dichotomies
10. Glories
11. Faded Sound
Tour dates
04/29 – Portland, OR – The Liquor Store
05/01 – San Francisco, CA – Hemlock Tavern
05/03 – Los Angeles, CA – All Star Lanes w/ Suzie True
05/05 – Las Vegas – Starboard Tack
05/07 – St Louis – Foam
05/08 – Cincinnati – Yacht Club Flam
05/11 – Toronto, CA – Audiotree x CMW @ Horseshoe w/ Ought, PONY
