Philly-based indie rock group The Noisy shares new single/video ‘Grenadine’.
This nostalgic track is from The Noisy’s upcoming deluxe edition of their debut album The Secret Ingredient Is Even More Meat out 24 October via Audio Antihero.
Sara Mae Henke shares the following about ‘Grenadine’ and the accompanying video:
“The director, Sam Cush, and I came of age hanging around downtown Annapolis, where I worked at a tourist trap coffee shop and Sam’s parents moved. It’s where I found my first artist community in my coworkers who were writers and musicians and illustrators, where I saw live drag the first time, where Sam and I late-night-drove, where I snuck onto the best rooftops.
This music video is a love letter to Annapolis, this town of annual croquet matches between Johnnies and midshipmen, cobblestone mornings with streams of last night’s liquor smell, watching boats round Ego Alley. Before I left for college, my coworkers threw a house party for me, and I remember feeling so loved, then driving back over the bridge home afterwards and crying with the windows down because I didn’t want to leave. All the things my teenage self desperately needed— queer friendship, a better haircut, to get to come back to Annapolis—filming this music video affirmed I have now, and then some.
The song, unlike any of the other ones I’ve written, jumped into my head and insisted on being written. I had the melody and the rhythm, but figuring out the lyrics about this place and these people I loved was tedious. I remember Sam coming to visit me in Knoxville, and we co-worked, and I got the lyrics down finally. It makes sense to me that this song and its visual world took the friendship of another person who loves this place like I do in order to find its final shape.”
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Check out The Noisy’s next show at The Dolphin in Philadelphia with KulfiGirls on 28 August.
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