Okay wow, this is honestly pretty sick. You could probably call what Long Island rock band An Old Friend is doing particularly innovative. We say this because their newest single, “Flower Glass”, manages to merge the spirit of indie rock with shoegaze and post-rock soundscapes, which sounds even cooler than the probably lame manner we described it in. Anyway, it’s the band’s first new single in a few years, and if bands like Gates and The Reign Of Kindo sound like good starting points to describe the sound of An Old Friend (and they are particularly appealing to you), you’ll want to listen to the new song a day early. Courtesy of us, of course, because that’s what we do.
About the new song:
“There’s a shade of pink in the sky that we don’t know,” sings Kohler in the release of “Flower Glass.” It’s a metaphor for phenomena beyond human understanding — color out of space, in other words. Video director Tom Flynn can’t create a new color, but he certainly can enhance the senses you’ve already got. In the luminous, trippy clip for “Flower Glass,” Flynn immerses the four musicians in An Old Friend in washes of brilliant, shape-shifting color: ripples of ultramarine blue, bursts of sunshine yellow, stovetop-flame orange. The effects he uses provide texture and refract and twist the light; they’re meant to destabilize, and they do. This is a chromatic maelstrom these musicians are weathering — one generated by their own towering emotions.
