Video: Drab Majesty, ‘The Skin and the Glove’

Kevin Bronson on July 21st, 2023

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Drab Majesty (Photo by Corinne Schiavone)

For six glorious minutes on their new single, “The Skin and the Glove,” Drab Majesty sends the listener swirling through time and space, connected to reality only by the stentorian march of the vocals.

Equilibrium, take the rest of the day off.

The song is the second from Drab Majesty’s forthcoming EP, “An Object in Motion” (out Aug. 25 via Dais Records), whose four tracks clock in at 32 minutes.

The video was filmed primarily on Super 8mm in L.A., Palm Springs, Switzerland, France, Italy, Hungary, Mexico, Vancouver and Tasmania. They explain that the “flashing frames of time” captured by the Super 8mm camera seem naturally edited in some part by simply moving through moments, holding down the trigger and choosing to remember certain aspects of a day, a trip or an extended period of travel. In doing so, they compress the long passage of time and the effort that goes into touring as a band — to present it as the mind does: a tapestry of reflection that seems stitched together randomly and with that ephemeral granularity that rests in the potential to misremember.

||| Watch: The video for “The Skin and the Glove”