The Return of Home Video
“I Can Make You Feel It” – Home Video
Debuted this week on MTV’s Subterranean and MTVU
As 2008 comes to a close, i’ve been taking inventory of what artists have impacted my ears the most. According to Last.fm, the 5 artists and bands i’ve scrobbled the most, Radiohead, Death In Vegas, The Presets, The Rapture, and Home Video.
Home Video, Collin Ruffino and David Gross, are New Orleans transplants, now living in Brooklyn, New York. Here they revel in a self-created world of references to Edward Gorey, Massive Attack, Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins, Portishead, and other references that they have been collecting for nearly ten years.
As electronic-rock producers and performers, they record everything themselves, then adapt it live with hypnotic visual projections. After sharing a bill in London at the start of Home Video’s first European tour, Blonde Redhead invited the band to support them for three weeks of shows in North America. Since then they have opened for such diverse acts as Yeasayer, Flying Lotus, Pinback, Colder, ad Radio 4.
Originally discovered by Warp Records, the label released Home Video’s first two EPs in 2004, both packaged in sleeves illustrated by Collins dark, Gorey-esque drawings. “That You Might”, the single, immediately picked up considerable attention in Britain from BBC Radio 1 and the NME, while the five song Citizen EP earned the band a feature in Rolling Stone. In 2006, New York based Defend Music released their debut full length, “No Certain Night Or Morning”. Grammy nominated Sasha picked two of the songs from this album to remix for his recently released Involver 2, which also included reworked songs from Thom Yorke, Ladytron, M83, and Apparat.
I was just sent a promo of their self released EP “It Will Be OK” which is the first new material Home Video has released since 2006. It illustrates the bands new direction in both sound and attitude. The new music is decidedly more complex than their earlier work and gives way to glimmerings of hope marked by sublime swells of sound. They’ve also since, been recording with their touring drummer, Jim Orso.
Home Video, also producers in their own right, have remixed Bang Gang, Modwheelmood, their own releases, “Melon” and “We” and have also been remixed by Loving Hand aka DFA’s Tim Goldsworthy.
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Home Video – Maybe What You Need – Self Release
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Home Video – The Tundra – Warp
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Home Video – Penguin – Loving Hand Remix
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Bang Gang – The World Is Grey – Home Video Remix
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Great write-up! I had heard some of their earlier stuff, and I have to say I feel like their sound is better suited to slower, more melodic feel than the fast electro sound, but it’s good to hear new stuff from them. Didn’t know they were so widely panned, either.
Just wanted to let you know the link for “The Tundra” is dead.
Comment by Daniel — December 9, 2008 @ 1:29 pm
widely panned ? that means widely criticized harshly, reviewed harshly.. Is that what you meant to say ? I dont think so, from context. Wouldn’t want people to get the wrong message,
Comment by Julia — December 22, 2008 @ 7:49 pm