Brandon Williams' Whitby, ON-based post-punk project Chastity has released a new music video for "Happy Face." It's the latest visual effort to arrive from Suffer Summer ahead of a string of Canadian tour dates with Badflower.
The song finds Williams paying tribute to a late friend — and the video likewise reflects the bond between a fictionalized version of the two. In a press release, Williams explained: "This is the most nonfiction Chastity song — it's about my friend Andrew who died in a Salvation Army shelter in London [Ontario], meters away from where we record everything. He was the first outsider I ever met."
Williams continued:
I was such a Quiksilver-wearing elementary-school kid, and he was older and was like, 'Have you seen this Zero skate video called "Dying to Live?" Neil Young was on that soundtrack, Slayer was on there, Nirvana — it was an insane soundtrack. He showed me that and the Misfits, and it really opened my world. After I met him, I grew my hair long, and it was, like, on for me. Andrew was a path changer for me, so learning about him dying was a fucking brutal heart-sinker.
Suffer Summer saw contributions by Stefan Babcock of PUP and Alexisonfire/City and Colour's Dallas Green, as well as Linnea Siggelkow, Williams' partner and bandleader of Hamilton-bred dream-pop outfit Ellis.
Watch the video for "Happy Face" below, read Exclaim!'s 8/10 review of Suffer Summer and listen to the album in full here.
The song finds Williams paying tribute to a late friend — and the video likewise reflects the bond between a fictionalized version of the two. In a press release, Williams explained: "This is the most nonfiction Chastity song — it's about my friend Andrew who died in a Salvation Army shelter in London [Ontario], meters away from where we record everything. He was the first outsider I ever met."
Williams continued:
I was such a Quiksilver-wearing elementary-school kid, and he was older and was like, 'Have you seen this Zero skate video called "Dying to Live?" Neil Young was on that soundtrack, Slayer was on there, Nirvana — it was an insane soundtrack. He showed me that and the Misfits, and it really opened my world. After I met him, I grew my hair long, and it was, like, on for me. Andrew was a path changer for me, so learning about him dying was a fucking brutal heart-sinker.
Suffer Summer saw contributions by Stefan Babcock of PUP and Alexisonfire/City and Colour's Dallas Green, as well as Linnea Siggelkow, Williams' partner and bandleader of Hamilton-bred dream-pop outfit Ellis.
Watch the video for "Happy Face" below, read Exclaim!'s 8/10 review of Suffer Summer and listen to the album in full here.
