Clip represents washed out wandering of L.A. life set to
tune that evokes Blur, Ride, Dinosaur, Jr.
Faris McReynolds of ExDetectives as photographed by Maya
Mercer
“The Lawn” is the first single and video from Take
My Forever by ExDetectives
“…a flight through the clouds. …listen to this album over
and over again.” – The Aquarian
“Why are some sounds so satisfying? Or, as is the case
with ExDetectives, so instantaneously satisfying?” – My Old Kentucky Blog
Faris McReynolds, who alone comprises the Los
Angeles-based one man band ExDetectives, today posted the
video for “The Lawn”, the first single from the debut ExDetectives albumTake
My Forever, out now on Post Planetary Records.
The video, directed by Larisa Laivins, is a
dreamy ramble through a sundrenched city. Laivins says the
clip is “inspired by being a teenager having no specific destination and just
wanting to be out in the world, checking things out, listening to music and
skating down the street or driving around aimlessly.”
The song itself is a droning wash of guitars and live – as
in not programmed – synthesizers that evoke Britpop bands such as Blur, Ride,
and Elastica, as well as first wave indie rock likeDinosaur, Jr.
“I wanted it to be this mass of sound that stays in place
all the way through the song,” McReynolds explains. “No
dynamics, just this wide swirl of textures. It’s got loud distorted guitars,
yet it manages to come off as mellow. I’m proud of that.”
McReynolds believes that the video for “The
Lawn” is true to those sounds, saying, “Much like the song itself, it
is sort of lo-fi. I like that it looks like a home video from the 90’s
and has that same washed out feeling.”
Created in a quick two-week fit of low-budget recording
(vocals were tracked in a storage closet), McReynolds plays
all of the instruments (save for the drums) on Take My Forever.
It’s a radical approach to making a record that bears itself out all the way
down to the title itself. As McReynolds states, “The
title of the album says, ‘Here, you can fucking have it. Make of it what you
will.”
ExDetectives
Take My Forever
(Post Planetary – Out Now)
Request: FULL LP
Track Listing:
01. Cleaner
02. The Crown
03. Can You Feel It?
04. The Lawn
05. Careless Hysterics
06. Come on Down
07. Halcyon
08. New History
09. So Long
10. It’s Better
11. Pocket Rainbow
12. Closing Bell
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