Video: Shannon and the Clams, ‘Corvette’

Daiana Feuer on June 15th, 2015

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Shannon and the Clams today dropped the first single from their new album, “Gone By The Dawn,” due Sept. 11 on Hardly Art. The track, “Corvette,” sets the tone for a collection of songs that’s a bit more emotional than anything the San Francisco trio released before. Written while two-thirds of the band were in various stages of break-ups, the result is a record stricken with heartache, loneliness, and 1950s-tinged fantasies to escape icky feelings and love gone wrong. For producer, the band turned to Sonny Smith, of Sonny & the Sunsets, and he, in turn, made the musicians sound raw and real, without tuning down any of the band’s signature quirk and time-traveling charisma. You can feel Shannon Shaw’s voice on “Corvette” like it’s right there in front of you, a bleeding heart at the edge of a cigarette, a ghost sitting alone at her party chopping off her Ken dolls’ heads. Appropriately enough, Ken makes an appearance in the Loren Risker-directed “Corvette” video. What’s left when Ken never manifests all the dreams a little girl expects from his cool guy smile and perfect hair, promises of romance and sunsets. In “Corvette,” Shaw evokes the feeling of his car’s leather seats on her “buns.” The word “buns” never sounded cuter than in this song. F you, Ken.

Stream: “Corvette”