Junior Boys

"Big Black Coat" (video)

BY Sarah MurphyPublished Feb 25, 2016

Hamilton, ON electro duo Junior Boys returned with a new LP called Big Black Coat earlier this month, and now they've shared some visuals for the album's title track.
 
The clip is a super-stimulating hodgepodge of trippy visual effects, serving up spirals and geometric patterns that move and morph to the beat of the song. The clip was directed by Tim Saccenti, who took his cues from other works of experimental video art.
 
"It evolved from mine and the band's mutual love for early analog video and experimental film art, industrial techno, and the audio/visual performances of seminal DIY electronic band the Severed Heads," Saccenti said in a press release. "Following the beauty and driving movement of the track, I wanted to create a piece of emotional innocence to run through the grinder of distortion."
 
Give the video a watch in the player below, then head over here to read our interview with the band from this month's issue of Exclaim!
 
Big Black Coat is out now via City Slang, and the band's upcoming North American tour dates are listed below.

Tour dates:

03/10 Vancouver, BC - Imperial 
03/11 Seattle, WA - Neptune Theatre 
03/12 Portland, OR - Star Theater 
03/14 San Francisco, CA - Mezzanine 
03/15 Los Angeles, CA - The Regent Theater 
03/18 San Diego, CA - Casbah 
03/19 Tuscon, AZ - The Flycatcher 
03/21 Dallas, TX - Club Dada 
03/22 Austin, TX - The Mohawk 
03/23 Houston, TX - The Warehouse Live Studio 
03/24 New Orleans, LA - One Eyed Jacks 
03/25 Birmingham, AL - Saturn 
03/26 Atlanta, GA - The Loft 
03/28 Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle 
03/29 Washington, DC - Black Cat 
03/30 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer 
03/31 New York, NY - Webster Hall 
04/01 Allston, MA - Brighton Music Hall 
04/02 Pawtucket, RI - The Met Cafe 
04/04 Pittsburgh, PA - Altar 
04/05 Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom 
04/06 Chicago, IL - The Metro 
04/07 Pontiac, MI - The Crofoot 
04/08 London, ON - London Music Hall 
04/09 Toronto, ON - Phoenix Concert Theatre 

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