by Dan Goldin (@post_trash_)
Philadelphia’s Boon have a tendency to continually change shape from album to album, song to song, even from moment to moment. It’s that desire to subvert expectations and to create with free-form that keeps listeners attentive and leads to Boon’s creative well of psych-pop wanderings. The band - Brendan Principato, Drew Sher, Jesse Paller (June Gloom) - recently announced a new full length, Morning’s, due out May 15th via Super Wimpy Punch (Holiday Music, Dust From 1000 Yrs, Birthday Ass), the follow up to last year’s All Of Us Laughing. Record with The Cradle’s Paco Cathcart, the record’s first single “Stoneburner” is a woozy effort that comes alive in its own warped manner.
Opening with what sounds like manipulated tape speeds on the vocals, the warm acoustic folk foundation lays a framework for the song to crawl and blossom. The video distorts nature between reality and animation, subtly shifting, and resulting in a questioned state as you wonder if what you saw prior was real at all. The soft animations are simple and gorgeous, adding to the track’s atmosphere with distracting from the weary message of the song. As “Stoneburner” shifts from ethereal to a increasingly driven tempo, the scenes of nature turn to city life as brick buildings and billboards replace the trees and wildlife.