Hey everyone,
We are beyond excited to finally share the music video for our brand new single, “Sea of Love II.”
This atmospheric, dream-pop track is one that means a lot to us, and it serves as the centerpiece for our upcoming debut full-length album, No Future, which will be officially dropping this fall!
First things first—you can watch the new video right here: ▶️ Watch “Sea of Love II” on YouTube
Directed by our frequent collaborator and good friend Aaron Dunn, the video drops our vocalist Pavan Singh into the purgatory of an underground parkade. Every attempt at linear progress turns into a failure; every door leads back to where he started, taking him deeper into the maze. Even his eventual escape out into the vast, beautiful Alberta landscape turns out to be just a bigger prison, eventually dissolving into a psychedelic feedback loop during the song’s final, cathartic swell.
“Sea of Love II” relies on a repeated, mantra-like verse: “The sea will wince with pain and crash / The wind will cry a song of sorrow…” We really wanted to let the expansive instrumental sections carry the emotional weight of facing down the exact same storm, again and again.
Listen to the track on your favorite streaming platform: 🎧 Stream “Sea of Love II” Here
This single is the introduction to No Future. A few years after our 2019 EP Don’t Everybody Thank Me At Once, Pavan showed up to a jam night with a handful of songs packed with righteous riffs and catchy melodies. That night planted the seeds for this record. To expand on our usual straightforward power-pop sound, we took these songs over to Child Stone Studios to work with producer Chris Dadge (Chad VanGaalen, Alvvays).
As an album, No Future explores how we deal with the present when we know things are falling apart around us. That can mean giving up, trying harder, or just letting out a wry laugh.
“There’s a certain feeling of release, even joy, when you finally accept that things are over… when there is no future,” Pavan says about the themes of the new record. “It forces you to live entirely in the present moment, which can be both terrifying and hilarious. Many of the lyrics come from my own memories, but they’re filtered through this caricature of myself as a kind of Larry David or George Costanza character: anxious, over-thinking, but finding comedy in the collapse.”
We can’t wait to share the rest of No Future with you this fall. Until then, stream the new single, watch the video, and let us know what you think!
— Pavan, Kirk, Blair, and Matt Science is Fiction