Video premiere: Crossing I’s Dotting T’s, ‘All Feelings Aside’
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Orange County-bred rockers Crossing I’s Dotting T’s make distortion-ripped, angst-laden alternative rock with the kind of hit-you-in-the-face choruses that used to populate FM radio a couple decades (or more) ago.
Theirs is muscular music for the weight of the world — and there was plenty to address on the quartet’s debut EP, which was released last fall. Though just four songs that clock in at a tick under 12 minutes, the self-titled release, inspired in part by the death of frontman Matt Mucerino’s cousin/best friend, confronts demons such as depression, anxiety, mortality and outsiderdom.
The music is a white-knuckle mix of grunge, punk and emo — “emo-gressive alt rock,” the band calls it. The EP was made with Silver Snakes frontman/producer-engineer Alex Estrada, who has worked with bands such as Joyce Manor, Touché Amoré and Nails.
The foursome — Mucerino, along with Soren Crisell, Oliver Callison and Luke Caro — are working on a full-length, and the explosive “All Feelings Inside” was released in February as the first single since the EP. It finds its catharsis in ricocheting from soft to loud to arrive at the chorus, “I don’t wanna be here anymore.”
Director Sean Sweetman’s video for “All Feelings Aside” follows the band from daybreak to skate park, but not without plenty of existential contemplation. Most often, the worst part of being is the nothingness, and the best way to purge is to turn the amps up to 11.
||| Watch: The video for “All Feelings Aside”
||| Also: Stream the band’s self-titled EP in its entirety
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