Optic Sink announce new album 'Lucky Number'
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Memphis post-punk band Optic Sink will unveil their third studio album this October.
Revealed today, Lucky Number is slated for an October 31 release via Feel It Records. The lead single from the album titled "Don't Look Down" comes with a music video directed by Micky Thordarson (Low Budget Films), which can be seen here. Vocalist Natalie Hoffmann said this about writing the song in a Nashville hotel room:
“I was there working on a TV show and ended up snowed in at a Candlewood Suites by the highway that overlooked the train tracks. To get out of the hotel room, I would go down to the parking lot and watch the trains that went by in the snow. I became sort of obsessed with them. I thought there was something both beautiful and eerie about their movement and sounds.”
Thordarson saidd this about working on the video:
“The lyrics with the repeated references to the sky, passing trains, and a snowy landscape helped naturally create inspiration for a visual narrative. How do you fit all of these elements together with a video in the middle of summer? Throw in some mystique camera angles playing on duality, time, and space while filming in downtown Memphis.”
Pre-orders for Lucky Number can be made here.
Lucky Number tracklisting
1. Laughing Backwards
2. Lucky Number
3. Construction
4. Don’t Look Down
5. How Can I Help You?
6. Golden Hour
7. Kinetic World
8. Luxury of Honesty
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