Daughters collaborate with the artist Alexander Barton on a new short film entitled “Magic Relighting Candle.” The band’s cut “City Song,” off their new album You Won’t Get What You Want out now on Ipecac Records, soundtracks the visuals. Narrated by Daughters’ vocalist Alexis Marshall, a dire angst forms the sonic backdrop for Barton’s Super-8 film in noise-scratched black and white. Throughout, we watch as a young boy repeatedly attempts to blowout a cake full of candles, before resorting to attempts on just one. The familiar birthday ritual is turned into a sort of “magic” event, with the boy’s exhales and the candle’s relighting forming a rhythmic interplay with Daughters’ bass-and-drum-driven attack.
“City Song” was recorded using the Fuzzrocious Empty Glass Bass Pedal. Guitarist Nick Sadler explains:
“Ryan at Fuzzrocious came up w a modded version of one of his pedals that he thought might be a useful tool for Daughters. We traded the prototype and new ideas, back and forth, for nearly a year until I was able to sit down and begin applying the Empty Glass to this shelved self-referential percussion pattern. Empty Glass provides almost 100% of the music you hear in ‘City Song’ – the challenge being in how to turn a simple drone tool into performative music.”
The pedal is currently available exclusively thru Revolver, though only fifteen were built. The product description for Empty Glass reads:
With a vision to create something both cacophonous yet rich with texture that compliments the sound of Daughters, after a year of collaborating with Fuzzrocious Pedals, Empty Glass was born.
Empty Glass takes the base circuit of Fuzzrocious’ M.O.T.H. and slightly alters it to expand its capabilities further. First, a dirty, monophonic octave up circuit slams the M.O.T.H., creating metallic, harsh octave up drive/distortion.
Via the DRONE footswitch, users can activate an oscillator with controls for the volume of the droning oscillator, a blend to mix the drive/distortion signal with the oscillator, and a drone pot to control the sweep of pitched oscillation ranging from the guttural revving of a V8 engine to the ear-piercing screech of tinnitus.
Daughters kick off a Fall tour in Richmond, VA at Strange Matter tomorrow for a little Halloween madness. Here is the rest of the band’s upcoming schedule…
October 31 Richmond, VA Strange Matter
November 1 Baltimore, MD Metro Gallery
November 2 Philadelphia, PA First Unitarian Church
November 3 Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Bazaar SOLD OUT
November 4 Brooklyn, NY Saint Vitus SOLD OUT
November 8 Los Angeles, CA The Echo
November 9 Los Angeles, CA The Echo SOLD OUT
November 10 San Francisco, CA Bottom of the Hill SOLD OUT
November 11 San Francisco, CA Bottom of the Hill
November 13 Seattle, WA Highline
November 15 Denver, CO Larimer Lounge
November 17 Chicago, IL Beat Kitchen SOLD OUT
November 18 Chicago, IL Beat Kitchen SOLD OUT
April 5 St. Petersburg, Russia Mod Club
April 6 Moscow, Russia Pravda Club
April 8 Munich, Germany Backstage Concerts
April 9 Stuttgart, Germany Juha West
April 10 Paris, France Point Ephemere
April 11 Saint-Josse- ten -Noode, Belgium Le Botanique
April 12 Berlin, Germany Cassiopeia Club
April 13 Hamburg, Germany Hafenklang
April 14 Tilburg, Netherlands Roadburn
April 15 Ramsgate, UK Ramsgate Music Hall
April 16 Bristol, UK The Exchange
April 17 Manchester, UK The Deaf Institute
April 18 Glasgow, UK The Hug and Pint
April 19 Leeds, UK Brudenell
April 20 London, UK The Dome
