“STRANGER” VIDEO PREMIERE: AUSTIN CHRONICLE
We are so thankful to editor Cy White of The Austin Chronicle for premiering “Stranger,” our new video directed by Mad Whitaker and edited by Chase Bradburn. Read the full piece here.
The Austin Chronicle piece begins: “A couple days before debut album There’s No Such Thing As Time drops, Parker Woodland sneaks in a second single to showcase the album’s emotional and sonic range. “Stranger” as a track leaves you feeling both drained and lifted.
“The song forces you to reckon with your heartache and figure out how to move on from the strife. The video hits similar hyperstylized notes as certain black-and-white scenes in films like Kill Bill and Sin City (or throwbacks to Nineties alt-everything), an eerie visual patina made more haunting by the creeping curl of Andrew Solin’s guitar and the eerie 3/4 tattoo of Keri Cinquina’s backbeat. The saturation and off-white pigmentation make this a visual experience, if you can handle the flashing. It’s an emotional carnival, a house of mirrors that lacks the fun but has all the freakiness.
“Director and member of Austin Music Award-winning Sailor Poon Madison Whitaker derived much of her inspiration from stills of Dune and the striking visual simplicity of Sinéad O’Connor’s interpretation of The Family deep cut “Nothing Compares 2 U.” . . .