Video: Dreamers, ‘Desensitize’

Kevin Bronson on November 14th, 2019

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Dreamers came out with guitars blazing this past spring, when the L.A. trio released their second full-length “Launch Fly Land,” an album that did nudge the band onto rock radio charts but whose bark was more powerful than its bite.

Their follow-up single “Desensitize,” though, finds Dreamers hammering home a message — it’s a grungy banger that rails against all manner of societal ills, sarcastically suggesting “swallow your pills and shut off your mind.”

“This song is about all the crazy and horrible things in the world that we somehow get used to and even forget about,” singer-guitarist Nick Wold said via social media. “Lying, thieving political leaders, rape, war and violence … advertisers constantly selling to us, preying on our vanity and worst instincts. In this song, I’m not always singing as me but as a corporate moneyed interest who wants nothing more than for you to acclimate, to not notice, to desensitize.”

Wold and bandmates Marc Nelson and Jacob Wick play manic masked men in search of the perfect selfie in the video for the song. A sly commentary on some of the ways we hide from the outside world? Perhaps.

||| Watch: The video for “Desensitize”