Let’s take ourselves back to the early months of 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic is still hanging around, new variants are…no, wait, how about we don’t take ourselves back to the early months of 2021. What’s that? We have to? Well then, let’s at least do it via the video for “The New Winter.” It’s a standout track from Now That We Are All Ghosts, the new record from Milwaukee doom chamber/Americana outfit Resurrectionists. The bleak recent past never looked/sounded so good…
“The new winter isn’t new, it’s just the old one again,” yelps Resurrectionists singer Joe Cannon as he hoofs it through early-2021 Riverwest. “Bodies in the snow vanish with the thaw / Or, better put, they wait for the thaw to withdraw again.” How can you tell it’s early 2021? Take a gander at the “Wipe The Mic Please!” sign at Bremen Cafe, or the shuttered and not-yet-transformed-into-The-Daily-Bird Fuel Cafe. (R.I.P. Center Street Fuel.)
The Brian Theisen-directed clip for “The New Winter” isn’t Ghosts‘ only video; no, all nine of the album’s tracks have been given the video treatment, courtesy of six filmmakers (Theisen, Eric Arsnow, TW Hansen, Conan Neutron, Wendy Norton, Erica Strout). Previous releases include Theisen’s video for album opener “A Classic Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue”…
…Neutron’s clip for album closer “(hotel with pool)”…
…Theisen again with “The Rest Cure”…
…and Norton’s cartoon-spooky take on “Hobnobbing With High Value Targets”…
Resurrectionists have a busy month ahead of them. The record release show for Ghosts is set for Friday, April 14 at Promises, with Credentials and Spidora playing in support. Then, on Sunday, April 23, the band will set up shop at Cactus Club for the Inaugural Resurrectionists Film Fest—a.k.a. a screening of all nine videos from Ghosts, along with other work from the filmmakers. The free, all-ages show is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m.
And lest we end this piece still wallowing in the grey gloom of early 2021, we should note that the video for “The New Winter” culminates in the spring. After finding the album’s cover-model grandfather clock lying in the street, Cannon and company (Jeff Brueggeman, Josh Barto, Gian Pogliano) hoist it into a shockingly green Kilbourn Reservoir Park. Once there, they crack a few cold ones. Time, thankfully, marches on.
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