Ann Arbor quartet Pity Sex released the video for their track “Burden You” off their sophomore album White Hot Moon today. White Hot Moon was released in spring 2016 on Run For Cover Records. The video comes with the announcement that the band is going on an indefinite hiatus, with a simple statement to clear anything up, “We’ll be taking an indefinite hiatus from this project. Thank you for all the support. See you on the other side.”
PLAYLAB, INC. visualized the burden of relationships in a music video for Pity Sex’s lead single ‘Burden You’. The abstract video features an exhausted older woman slowly pushing a mound of bags that are tied to a grocery cart through a city’s streets while people look on.
Produced by Will Yip, the 12 original songs of White Hot Moon showcase some of the most collaborative songwriting in the band’s career, and that spirit has taken them in exciting directions – often several at once, dipping into different stylistic touchstones while maintaining a constant, grounding sense of emotion throughout. Guitarists Britty Drake and Brennan Greaves spin huge webs of sound, anchored in shoegaze but branching off in a dozen directions, from fuzzed-out power-pop (“Bonhomie”) to shimmering balladry (“Dandelion”) and back again, while co-lyricist/drummer Sean St. Charles and bassist Brandan Pierce lock into step with floor-shaking low-end and subtly counterintuitive rhythms. Drake brings an immediacy to her intimate, fearlessly personal songs—check the quietly devastating revelation of a recent loss in the opening moments of “Plum”—guided by her airy, hypnotic vocals. Meanwhile, Greaves’ guitar parts bring gravity to St. Charles’ more imagistic lyrics, his voice effortlessly segueing from baritone counterpoint for Drake to an evocative, confident croon. Together, as on highlight “What Might Soothe You,” their voices bob and weave around each other in innervating tension before melting into harmony.
