San Francisco’s The Band Ice Cream (AKA Icey) navigates the pageantry and duality of modern life on their forthcoming record PLAY DEAD. Icey’s captain Kevin Fielding concentrates societal and personal trauma into a lyrical portrait of a world struggling to straddle physical and digital realities. Heady stuff indeed, but Icey wraps it all in a cooling blend of post-punk, neo- psychedelia, and indie pop. PLAY DEAD is the perfect soundtrack to beachside doom-scrolling (and thus, the perfect soundtrack for contemporary reality).
Glide is premiering the video for “Net Positive” that shows the band’s propensity for surfer rock licks and psychedelic forays as if The Growlers were jamming with early era King Gizzard and The LIzard Wizard.
“Net Positive was written as ‘Play Dead’s slow deep breath. A reminder to myself to frame some less than ideal outcomes a little more optimistically. To roll with the punches and learn from them rather than let them sting. Thus, we wanted the video to be very low-key and fun to film. More of an afternoon’s hangout just getting captured.”
“To convey the go-with-the-flowness, each verse starts with a somewhat static shot where the focal point is getting swapped out every snare hit. We asked our friend Nathan Barrios to bust a couple dance moves for the choruses and spliced in between those are shots of our neighbor’s dog, our driveway and our backyard citrus grove. Best enjoyed with a joint and a side of hindsight.”
