Birmingham, AL-based jangle-pop outfit Slack Times has a knack for delivering explosive jangle pop that brings the Rickenbacker sound full front center. Not shy of wearing its influences, there is a kaleidoscope of rock genres nestled in its chiming sound that recalls the dBs, The Feelies and The Go-Betweens. With that the band has shared their latest single “Can’t Count On Anyone.”
The band describes the single as such: “This track is really about someone who’s chasing an unrealistic dream and perpetually failing in that pursuit. Eventually, the person embraces self-sabotage and spoils their dream. It’s also about depending on other people and, along the way, learning that you really can’t count on anyone.”
The track’s accompanying music video was illustrated, animated, and directed by Marine Hercouët, who the band got in contact with via Instagram. The video captures the story behind the track, which details an out-of-work actor who has a few too many drinks before arriving at an open-call audition. Glide is premiering this colorful musical companion..check it out below.
At the beginning of the video, the viewer sees the following expression: “Se me hizo bola.” According to Marine, “In Spanish, it literally translates as ‘it turned into a ball’ but it means ‘it got out of hands’ — usually when you’re obsessed with something, [you] forget about the time or the reality surrounding you, which is pretty much what happens with the story!”
Speaking on how At the Blue Melon Rendezvous came about, the band said:
“We really enjoyed writing and recording our first EP in late 2020. With that in mind, we committed ourselves to revisiting the studio again in the summer of 2021 regardless of how many songs we’d written. That commitment put a nice bit of creative pressure on us, so we regularly met at Chris’ house and uncovered a new batch of songs that aligned with our collective vision for the band. When we went to the studio, our hope was to record at least two of the songs we’d written. Thankfully, we found a really nice creative workflow while we were at the studio and were able to record four songs in one afternoon. The EP title is a reference to an art gallery in downtown Water Valley that we frequently encountered during our walks across the city — when we first saw the place, we thought it was a windowless bar, which, for us, was very exciting.
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What a fun track and video! Love it!