Based on the new video from Bellevue, Ohio shoegaze/sludge quartet, Flourish, the “New Cosmic Terror” might be octopus-related. Go figure. The nearly five-minute track is a contrast in melody and drop-tuned sludge with airy vocals and heavy, heavy washes of six and four-string chordage. The video itself, directed by Brendan Gill, is a bit of a mystery with prevalent imagery of night driving, a balaclava-clad dude gathering rocks(?) and, uh, octopus tentacles. And, yeah, there are brief performance shots of the band—Marcus Storch (guitar), Rogan Campbell (guitar), Kameron Korom (bass), Harley Dendinger (drums)—sprinkled throughout.
“New Cosmic Terror” is the latest single from Flourish’s upcoming third full-length, Deepest Wellsprings of Being, an eight-tracker which was produced by Flourish and Ben Kaplan; engineered and mixed by Zac Montez; recorded at Earth Analog Studio, Champaign, IL; and mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege Portland, OR. It’s set for release on Lost Future Records on vinyl and digitally on September 27. You can preorder your copy here.
This is what the band had to say about its latest single:
“‘New Cosmic Terror’ takes lyrical inspiration from a few of our favorite science fiction worlds. It is a narrative about the value of somebody’s life through the perspective of an android.”