by Patrick Pilch (@pratprilch)
Is this world too much sometimes? Have you just ever just, you know, had enough? If so, you’re in luck - Banny Grove is back, and I am pleased to report that it allowed me and my cracked, over-soaped knuckles to conk the fuck out for a solid three minutes. If you’re already familiar with Banny Grove, you know the drill. Louise Chicoine’s performance-art-persona is cut from a different kind of cloth. This is otherworldly music, built for supreme dissociation and fitted for a continuously puzzling period in time. Today we’re thrilled to premiere the debut single and video from Banny Grove’s upcoming LP Dust World. Following a move from the Los Angeles sprawl to a shack in the Mojave Desert, “Goo-Goo’s Melody” is our first sample of the band’s relocation and revisioning. This time around, Banny Grove sets out to simultaneously streamline elements of pop and electronic music into beautifully engaging compositional developments with Chicoine’s increasingly cutting lyricism.
The Peter Nichols-directed video finds the blue-clad vocalist in the desert with what appears to be an anthropomorphic red-eyed rabbit. Shots of various garbage splice Chicoine’s wasteland recital before lapine pyrokinesis turns into an act of self-immolation. But animals certainly don’t kindle unprompted. It’s best you take a listen yourself.
Dust World will be out via Feeding Tube Records and Nicey Music later this year.