Watch: Dorval & Devereaux “Heavy Hands”

22 Apr 2014 — Trey Reis

Chalk this one up as one of my most anticipated releases of the year. Here’s the lowdown: Crystal Dorval, who is known for her hazy, minimal White Poppy project, and Beau Devereaux of Samantha Glass renown have teamed up for a collaborative effort, aptly named Dorval & Devereaux, for a late April 2014 cassette release from Moon Glyph. And this video for “Heavy Hands” from the forthcoming release is as hazy and gloomy as signifiers surrounding the release would suggest, its images darkening enough of the otherwise familiar images to leave them new, but recognizable. Each thump of the drum pattern calling to mind aspects of Devereaux’s catalogue, while still trudging forward into the foggy but native call of the White Poppy. And on top of all of that, the video is directed by Mr. Francesco De Gallo who runs Hobo Cult Records. If hashtags were an NFOP thing, this post would be #’ed out.

Check out the video for “Heavy Hands” below. Then, head over to the Moon Glyph Soundcloud page for a stream of two of the other songs from the album. Lastly, buy this beautiful (physically, artistically, aesthetically, aurally) tape before all 150 of them are gone!