SAINT MOTEL is pleased to release their video for the single “1997″ from their recently released LP Voyeur. Directed by the band’s very own A/J Jackson, the video takes place at The Dresden in Los Angeles and centers on a sinister version of the world famous lounge singers, Marty & Elayne. The lounge singing duo takes the band on an out of body experience through their captivating performance of “1997″.
The band is currently on a national headlining tour with support on the bulk of the tour from RACES (Frenchkiss), see dates below.
‘Voyeur’ Available Now
With sophisticated savvy and singularity, the Los Angeles quartet SAINT MOTEL has built a formidable reputation on the back of inventive indie pop and wildly-fun live shows. Mixing raw energy and rousing rhythms, SAINT MOTEL’s aural catharsis is pure bliss with a twist of cynical humor. According to A/J Jackson, singer and creative force behind SAINT MOTEL, the band recently has expanded its repertoire to include “new elements that I would describe as tropical, Latin, big band, retro, that I don’t think would have applied to our earlier music.”
This is the way of SAINT MOTEL, not to be held down by stagnancies, but to continue a natural progression. Once the listener is pulled in by the pulsating and joyous melodies, delight can be found in the surprisingly avant-garde lyrical subject matter. Voyeur is lush with stories that reveal themselves through thematic twists and turns with a narrative voice both subversive and sincere. With themes ranging from the lure of plastic surgery, to the dangers of honest feedback, to the taboo bonds of friendship within the Heaven’s Gate cult, we end up with tongue-in-cheek notions strung together by honest motifs, delivered with charm, often leaving the song’s meanings open to interpretation.
Jackson admits “while all the songs are based on what many would call ‘absurd’ subject matter, many of the songs have various levels of subtext that I hope the listener will decipher with repeated listens.” And so, what might be easily perceived as sexy with one listen, with another might seem mean-spirited or flatly perverse. That is the flair of SAINT MOTEL’s rapturous pop and the graceful dichotomy of its existence.
Voyeur Tracklisting:
01. Feed Me Now
02. Benny Goodman
03. Puzzle Pieces*
04. Daydream / Wetdream / Nightmare
05. 1997
06. Honest Feedback
07. At Least I Have Nothing*
08. You Do It Well*
09. Hands Up Robert*
10. Stories*
11. Balsa Wood Bones*
*produced by Eric Lilavois
All others produced by SAINT MOTEL
Tour Dates:
08/06 El Paso, TX at Lowbrow Palace*
08/07 Phoenix, AZ at Rhythm Room*
08/10 Santa Ana, CA at The Observatory%
08/11 San Diego, CA at The Casbah%
09/14 San Pedro, CA @ Ports O’Call Village
* w/ RACES
% w/ Tribes
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