AV Club Premieres New Saintseneca Video For "Happy Alone"
AVClub.com is premiering a new video from the celebrated young band Saintseneca. The clip is an imaginative study of alienation and isolation for the song “Happy Alone” from the the band's forthcoming album Dark Arc in stores April 1st. Check out the clip here: http://www.avclub.com/article/get-trapped-in-a-bubble-with-the-new-video-for-sai-107455
Saintseneca is led by singer-songwriter and multi instrumentalist Zac Little who originally hails from rural Appalachia. Following in the footsteps of heartland bands who have sought to twist the music of the old weird America into new shapes – from the Violent Femmes to Neutral Milk Hotel – Saintseneca perform songs that sound both familiar and uniquely original. The group utilizes a wide range of acoustic instrumentation with more contemporary elements such as synthesizers and electric guitars to create a seamless blend of soaring vocals and vibrant post-punk energy.
As Nashville Scene writes, “Saintseneca spins isolation into folk gold... On Dark Arc, Little's once minimalist compositions seem to miraculously twirl from sparse acoustic arrangements into layered space-rock jams that Built to Spill would be proud of" while Pitchfork.com offered, "bandleader Zac Little writes stompy folk songs that are more artfully crafted than all the bands you probably just thought of when you read the words “stompy folk songs.”
Songwriter Little says of the song “Happy Alone,” “This is a love song, a meditation on doom, the joy and the transcendence in all of that. I found the song in a bass that was half melted from the time when my bedroom had burned down. I didn't even know the bass worked, but kept it anyway. One day I could feel the gravity coming from it, pulling on me. I plugged it into this raspy little amp and found all of these little songs with it, bouncing around in the reverb tank. There is joy in doom, and doom in joy.”
The band will be touring the US in support of Dark Arc beginning in March.
Saintseneca Tour dates:
3/5/14 Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop
3/6/14 Cincinnati, OH @ MOTR Pub
3/7/13 Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle
3/8/14 Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry
3/9/14 Omaha, NE @ The Slowdown
3/10/14 Kansas City, MO @ Czar Bar
3/12-3/15 Austin, TX @ SXSW
3/18/14 Denver, CO @ Hi Dive
3/19/14 Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
3/20/14 Boise, ID @ Treefort Music Festival
3/21/14 Spokane, WA @ The Bartlett
3/22/14 Portland, OR @ Doug Fir
3/23/14 Seattle, WA @ Tractor Tavern
3/24/14 Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore
3/26/14 San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop
3/27/14 Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo
3/28/14 Visalia, CA @ Cellar Door
3/29/14 Santa Ana, CA @ Constellation Room
3/30/14 San Diego, CA @ Casbah
4/2/14 Santa Barbara, CA @ Soho Music Club
4/3/14 San Luis Obispo, CA @ SLO Brew
4/5/14 Phoenix, AZ @ PHX AM Party
4/8/14 Austin, TX @ Lambert’s
4/9/14 Houston, TX @ Fitzgerald’s Downstairs
4/10/14 New Orleans, LA @ Circle Bar
4/11/14 Birmingham, AL @ Bottletree
4/12/14 Nashville, TN @ Hi Watt
4/19/14 Columbus, OH @ WEX Arts Performance Space