SOCIAL CATERPILLAR
"Anti-Prayer"
exclusive music video premiere
For fans of: CityCop, Broken Social Scene and Manchester Orchestra
exclusive music video premiere
For fans of: CityCop, Broken Social Scene and Manchester Orchestra
April 8th, 2022
'When You Woke Up To Dances of Light'
300 x 12"s (Social Caterpillar)
100 x cassettes (Softseed Music + Social Caterpillar)
SOFTSEED MUSIC
Bandcamp
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I first about SOCIAL CATERPILLAR through my good Milwaukee friends Snag. They were kind enough to send me tapes of their earlier releases after I premiered some songs and reviewed their band here. One of said tapes was a split with fellow Milwaukeeans SOCIAL CATERPILLAR. A screamo band paired with an acoustic/folk band? Well...yes, apparently, because it worked.
A few years passed and I received an email from SOCIAL CATERPILLAR member Derek and I dove down the 'When You Woke Up To Dances of Light' spiral and submerged myself in the bliss of that album. I realized instantly that I couldn't release this on my two other labels due to them being "heavy", as other "softer" material released on those labels was mostly passed over and the physical products didn't move well. So...what to do? Start a new label? Sure, three is a pretty round-looking number.
The album is beautiful and haunting, with an ethereal aesthetic to boot. You'll have to wait until April 8th, 2022 to bask in the bright amazingness of 'When You Woke Up To Dances of Light', but you can grab a flashlight and get a decent glimpse at their first single and official music video from it today. "Anti-Prayer" was filmed, edited and animated by our friend and collaborator Chloe Corcoran (vimeo account linked here) who also did the video for "Bad Electricity" from their previous full length (linked here). SOCIAL CATERPILLAR had this to say:
"The video was filmed in our practice space located in the basement of a woodshop that Kial is an apprentice at. The track itself is an older song that Kial wrote that was later transcribed into the full-band version that we played live for a while and eventually decided to use the opening track of our new record. The song is a lament about being haunted by the thought of losing those that are closest to us, and the lyrics, we felt, helped introduce some of the other themes prevalent and developed throughout the rest of the record."
(2022) SOCIAL CATERPILLAR "Anti-Prayer" (from 'When You Woke Up To Dances of Light')
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