Dutch Interior – “Sandcastle Molds” [Video]

Dutch Interior — the LA County-based band of lifelong friends Jack Nugent, Conner Reeves, Davis Stewart, Noah Kurtz, and brothers Shane and Hayden Barton — release their new single/video, “Sandcastle Molds.” Having released their “muscular and capacious” Fat Possum debut single “Ecig” earlier this year, “Sandcastle Molds” is, in the band’s words, their attempt at making “a fucked up Fleetwood Mac song.” “This song grew from the realization, while driving down the 405 after a long night, that I might be losing my edge,” Nugent explains. “‘Sandcastle Molds’ deals with holding on to your sense of self as the world descends into madness at a nauseating pace. How does one hold on to hope when the state of all things seems to be in rapid decay?”

Directed and edited by the band and friends, the “Sandcastle Molds” video is made up of dual-images of miniatures and their real, life-sized counterparts: doll houses, furniture, wax figures, and piles of trash. The video was then re-filmed, positioning it as its own miniature, easier to control and less unwieldy than the actions taken to make it.

When Nugent, Reeves, Shane & Hayden Barton, Stewart, and Kurtz started making music together as Dutch Interior, the lifelong friends living between houses in Los Angeles and Long Beach had been in and out of each other’s lives for the better part of two decades. Beginning as a fluid experiment of songs born in the moment, initial recordings Kindergarten and Blinded By Fame trace an uncanny and distinctive world of their own design. The best relationships come easy, and the band is the product of a creative union brought on by already-established trust and familiar insularity. With influences spanning from ambient to southern rock to jazz to dance music, the band shapeshifts and oscillates between alternative country, sharply hewn indie rock and hints of dissonant ambience, all while still sounding like a band who both speak their own private language and translate it into something universal.

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