Sungaze is readying their debut LP Light In All Of It for release this year. In anticipation of the upcoming record, let’s watch the Cincinnati based-trio’s brand new video for their lead single, “New Familiar.” The band is comprised of the husband/wife team Ian Hilvert on guitar/vocals and Ivory Snow on keys/vocals, and the pair is joined by Tyler Mechlem on drums. “New Familiar” was written by Hilvert and Snow, and its’ sun-drenched dreamgaze was inspired in-part by the pairs “whirlwind romance.”
The video for the track goes on to chronicle the couple’s relationship. Filmed in Elk River Falls, NC, where they first fell in love, as well as in Hocking Hills, OH, on their actual wedding day this past September, the visuals memorialize the pair’s tight-knit emotional relationship, as well as their deep musical connection. When asked about the video, the group relayed a creepy story that happened during production. Falling somewhere between strange break-in and scary encounter with the supernatural, the band explains:
“It was during the North Carolina filming that our Airbnb was broken into. We had collectively decided, impulsively, to drive two hours to Asheville after filming had wrapped on Saturday afternoon. We arrived back to the Airbnb around midnight and as we were rounding the corner, both Ivory and Aly (camerawoman) had an image of the house being lit up, with a man standing in the living room window.
When we rounded the corner, every single light in the house had been turned on (we left while it was still daylight) and the side door entrance was wide open—the collective feeling was not that someone had just left, but that they had just gone IN. We peeled out of the driveway and drove two miles down the road, to an Ingles parking lot, where we were finally able to get cell service and call the police.
After searching the house, it was discovered that none of our belongings or equipment were missing, and one officer even suggested the house may just “be haunted”. He also revealed that the basement door had been open (which we had locked the first night we arrived because there was a creepy hole in the cellar wall that led to a crawl space beneath the foundation), which was more than enough information to scare us away.
As soon as the officers left, we scrambled to gather our things and fled. Unable to find a hotel, we ended up driving all through the night and arrived home in Cincinnati at 9am on Sunday.”
