Photo by Jason Watkins

Hearing music through their visuals first can define everything that a band is in one watch. We typically hear today’s advance listens from an artists’ upcoming release in video form these days because “content,” but so much of them are just an excuse to hire some agency house to throw something eyeball-appealing together without much relationship to the song. Dummy remember the ’90s, and by that, I don’t mean just Stereolab and early Broadcast. They remember an era where the relationship between music and video were codependent in letting the world know what exact kind of art freak you are. For “Opaline Bubbletear” and “Blue Dada”, the sequential latest off the Los Angeles noise-pop band’s new album, Free Energy, vocalist and keyist Emma Maatman again takes the lead behind the lens in her opus visual statement that’s gonzo, surreal, and aesthetically on-point in understanding today’s subterranean culture trend settings. Where the Cole Pulice sax assist in the former makes for the rabbit hole your mind steers into the course of a trip, “Blue Dada” crosswires Dummy’s new age air with the band’s squealing psychedelic punk, motoring around figures and disembodied parts adorned in the style of Baggy (both sonically and fashionably.) There’s little logic to the storyboard, but at the same time, that’s the revolution in sound burning through the screen.

Directed by: Emma Maatman

Dummy’s Free Energy will be released September 6th on Trouble In Mind Records.