It's been a while since we've heard from our former cover boys Thrice, who are coming back to town to play a couple of hometown shows next week. Today, they dropped their video for “Promises.” The song is one of our favorites off Major/Minor, and the video, with its soft lights and out of focus shots, reminds us of drummer Riley Breckenridge (who writes for Heard Mentality) talking about another song: “Blur,” which was inspired by an email Riley sent to
his bandmates while tossing around ideas for album art.
his bandmates while tossing around ideas for album art.
He had started
taking slow-shutter photos of lights while driving. “I was fascinated by
how it was an attempt to capture a moment in time, but because of the
way the shutter's set up, you can't focus on what's in front of you,” he
explains. Everything, even items close up, seemed out-of-focus to
Riley. “It made a lot of sense to me. With all the awful stuff that was
going on, that's how life felt: getting crazy, life-changing moments
piled on you and not having the time to process them or even understand
them.”
Watch it after the jump.
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