A beautiful new tune to round out our afternoon today, as Melbourne indie surf rockers Birdhouse release the video for rollicking new single ‘Sweet’.
We love the almost violin-esque guitar work on this one, the insistent pace built up through the interplay of jagged strums and tag-team vocals building tension throughout. The song is apparently about “trying to enjoy the simple pleasures of life while traveling, but having experiences coloured by depressing realities”, and that energetic melancholy certainly shines through.
The video, meanwhile, was shot in a single take by Linus Toliday and sees a series of overlapping narratives come and go throughout its four minutes, adding to the chaos felt in the lyric – check it all out below.
If you’d like to see ’em live, have no fear: the Birdhouse boys are a staple of the Melbourne scene, having played pretty much every rock venue worth its salt, and they’ll be playing a couple more shows over the next month or so as they gear up for an album release and a national tour later in the year.
If you’re in Melbourne, you’ll be able to catch ‘Sweet’ being busted out at the video launch party this Saturday Feb 18 at Revolver Bandroom (co-headlining with Chase City), ahead of their own mini-fest Birdfest kicking off March 12 at The Workers Club with Lunatics On Pogosticks headlining.
