Videos

Seventeen Evergreen: Burn The Fruit

• 9th May 2012

“Burn The Fruit (Pegasus)” is from the San Francisco band's sophomore LP, Steady On, Scientist!, slated for release June 25 via Lucky Number. Directed by Brian Ziffer, the video continues in Seventeen Evergreen's tradition of producing highly visual creative art around their music. This weekend the band will attend the Los Angeles Music Video Festival (LAMVF) where they will perform live and re-create their well-known Terry Timely directed “Polarity Song” video – with yarn bombed dancers in tow.

Seventeen Evergreen's Caleb Pate chimed in on the new video for “Burn The Fruit”: “The video is a continued exploration in real-time audiovisual cinema. A kind of 'visual music' where the process involves manipulating video in real time. With help from the Syphon Recorder, VDMX and other customized tools, the performance and capture of these live video mixes became analogous to the process of mixing and mastering music.”

Following the smash success of the band's December 2011 Psyentist EP, Steady On, Scientist! is about space and density – the polarity and the duplicity of life. Names like New Order, Air, Screamadelica-era Primal Scream, Sonic Youth or Flaming Lips may come to mind, but sonically and spiritually, it's a singularly triumphant and liberating concoction, an anthemic vision. Like their debut (2007's Life Embarrasses Me On Planet Earth), Steady On, Scientist! is entirely self-written, recorded and produced and, once again, it emphasizes its creator's clear and unique identity, away from the pack