Following the release of Dying Surfer Meets His Maker, the band has been working on the production of their upcoming album Sleeping Through the War, which will be released on February 24, 2017 through New West Records. Along with the work of the album, the band has also released a new song called “3-5-7”, which is the fourth song in the 8 song album.
In regards to the album, according to the press release, the guitarist Ben McLeod had said “We wrote it in about six days, where in the past we would have just gone ahead and written and recorded in the studio, we were like nah we’re going to do it with Dave, let’s be prepared. It was real minimal, Dave didn’t want us to get too crazy. We wanted a record you could crank. And we wanted girl backup singers.”
The video contains a lot of different type of imagery with an added static effect. As the lyrics are spoken slowly the video goes back and forth to images of the drummer and vocalist performing, images of nature and images of a child being fed and playing. The video can be watched below.
According to Noisey, when asked about the video, the director Robby Staebler had said “”For me this video is about perspective and the process of self realization. Once you begin to see yourself around you and in others, realizing you are apart of everything (even things that you despise) is something you have to swallow and move toward understanding so you can properly adjust. Remember that one song about that one dude who reached for the stars too soon? One of the most important and inspiring things I’ve heard is: “in concentration I will place my mind. For those whose thoughts are slack and wandering are caught between the fangs of their own afflictions” or something like that. Those afflictions become everyones afflictions. The cycle continues. The suffering continues. Learn to focus, you can do it!”
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