The Brooklyn-based post-punk quartet Pill will return to Mexican Summer on October 26th to release their Soft Hell LP. The band finds vocalist/bassist Veronica Torres joined by guitarist Jon Campolo, saxophonist Benjamin Jaffe, and drummer Andrew Spaulding. Pill’s self-titled 2015 debut came out on Andrew Savage (Parquet Courts) and Chris Pickering‘s (Future Punks) Dull Tools label, and their upcoming record follows up on their 2016 Mexican Summer long-player, Convenience.
Today, Pill made the Soft Hell track “Fruit” available for streaming with a new video produced by Studio Kándé. Delivering a fresh serving of nerve-wracked angst for the next generation of rotting vegetables, the band combines wired guitar lines and bugged-out saxophone with Torres’ incisive lyrical delivery. Discussing the visuals for the cut, Studio Kándé explains:
“For Pill’s ‘Fruit’ video we wanted to create a grotesque and colorful bacchanale of bullshit while blowing kisses at Le Grande Bouffe, the color palette of an LSD tinged Betty Crocker cookbook and the recent trend in millennial slime.”
Directed by Eli Welbourne, the video conjures up Saturday morning cartoon weirdness–with Studio Kándé gently suggesting it be watched, “while you gobble down a bowl of sugary cereal.”
