Video: Drab Majesty, ‘The Foyer’

Kevin Bronson on August 11th, 2015

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Dark endures. It never goes out of fashion or sounds dated, especially when it’s executed with the surgical precision of Drab Majesty’s debut LP “Careless,” which came out in June via Dais Records. The bleakness of the Velvets, the detachment of Felt, the reverberated, beautiful gloom of the likes of Bauhaus, Siouxsie, Depeche Mode and the Cure — they all crop up in Drab Majesty’s swathes of goth-pop. The band is the project of Andrew Clinco, drummer for the L.A. rock trio Marriages, who goes by Deb DeMure here created the album over a two-year period during which he “outlasted a malicious burglary of his studio, [struggled] with substance addiction, and most recently, the death of his beloved grandmother.” Director Thomas McMahan’s brilliant video, shot by Ryan Speers, is the kind of stuff that ought to make an occult figure out of Deb DeMure. Come down the rabbit hole.

||| Watch: The video for “The Foyer”