Video: Froth, ‘Laurel’

Kevin Bronson on April 9th, 2019

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Few bands have proven more adept in recent years at find less less-trampled ground of shoegaze, psychedelia and noise-rock than Froth. On each of their three albums — they’re good with odd-numbered years, “Patterns” in 2013, “Bleak” in ’15 and “Outside (briefly)” in ’17 — Froth take listeners on a wild ride through the myriad subgenres that inform their music, always leaving room in their almost-manic experimentation for bright melodies and a rather laconic sense of humor.

The trio of Joo-Joo Ashworth, Jeremy Katz and Cameron Allen return June 7 with their fourth album, “Duress,” coming out via Wichita Recordings. Guitars scribble and scrawl through the lead track “Laurel,” which is a love song … of sorts. “This song is about a guy who listened to the Yanny/Laurel thing and he can only hear Laurel,” the band says. “He’s really passionate about Laurel being the correct pronunciation to the point where he will die before admitting otherwise. In the end, he reveals that he loves his girlfriend more than he loves the correct pronunciation of Laurel/Yanny.”

If you’re wondering, there’s no song titled “Yanny” on the album, although we are curious about “John Peel Slowly.” While we await its arrival, there’s the video for “Laurel,” directed by Courtney Garvin of the Courtneys.

||| Watch: The video for “Laurel”