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Photo by Daniel Ontaneda
Boston band Matthew Stubbs & The Antiguas released their self-titled debut album in January and have been turning heads. The album is described as a diverse and propulsive affair, combining psych rock with acid blues and Afrobeat. The album feels cinematic, like a retro soundtrack to an underground film but with modern production influences a la Beck and Tom Waits. If that doesn’t pique your interest, I don’t know what would.
Today we are excited to premiere the new video for “Bastille Day” below! The video features an Monishita Ray, an Odissi dancer (an Indian classical dance from 300 bc) and is an exploration into the imaginative theatre of the mind. A rhythmic odyssey that suggests that our inner fictions can become blurred with reality. This is one you’re sure to be watching all day.
Director Jack Lemay on the video:
Bastille Day is an exploration into the imaginative inner mind that strikes at random, often in our most pedestrian moments.
In this case, an interesting individual passing on the train platform triggers the theatre of Matt’s inner mind to take hold. As the hypnotic guitar hook returns again and again, Matt’s rhythmic odyssey with this stranger reaches a crescendo before crashing to a close and revealing Matt back on the bench, out of sorts.
The ending suggests that our inner fictions can become blurred with reality. Sometimes reality teases out the fiction, sometimes the fictions tease reality.
Watch the video below and connect on socials for more!
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