Photo by Kiernan Francis

“Wide Awake” is arguably one of the more tranquilly mesmerizing turns from Strange Ranger to date, and especially that leading up to the release of their third full-length album, Pure Music. Synesthesia doesn’t begin to properly define this listen – a blurring, synthetic pop-amorphous harmonizing between Isaac Eiger and Fiona Woodman – which the former more astutely contextualized as “bursts of senses that return every now and again but don’t lead anywhere beyond themselves like a GIF in your brain.” The Philly four-piece here have mastered the capturing of vision, light, refraction, reflection, and the synapses that occur from the world outside and hidden into memory, present turned permanent. “Life churns / Fluorescent as the train turns / Catch you and your sunburn / And the lights smear by,” Eiger sings as he and the band transform sound into their own photographic device.

Directed by: Lola Dement Myers

Strange Ranger’s Pure Music will be released July 21st on Fire Talk.