THE DATSUNS release ‘Dehumanise’ video
+ Just in time for Record Store Day, ‘Suspicion’ released as limited edition 7”
+ Limited-edition white version of Eye To Eye album now available.
‘Dehumanise’ is The Datsuns third single to be taken from their seventh studio album Eye To Eye – out now.
Directed by Sam Kristofski, an accompanying video for the Sci-Fi inspired, dystopian riff rocker is released today.
Says Sam, “I shot this clip with expired reversal black and white film which was hand-processed here in NZ. I then painted all the colours into the film using a number of different pens and inks frame by frame. I also used a bunch of blades and tools to scratch into the film and create things like lightning effects and lines. Len Lye was one of the first people in the world to use this effect on film before colour film was a common thing. He was from Christchurch and took the film to New York, so this technique is really a strong part of New Zealand’s film history. It would have been one of the first accounts of projected colour film.”
Just in time for Record Store Day, Saturday, 17th July. The second single to be taken from the album, the heavy psych track ‘Suspicion’ is being released as a limited edition 7”. And, the bands seventh studio album Eye To Eye will be released as a limited edition white version.
Seventh studio album
EYE TO EYE
Out Now!
PRAISE FOR EYE TO EYE
“Raw 60s garage and psych-rock singles, late 70s punk, New Wave keyboards, souped-up 70s hard rock- all of these musical strands still twine through the new Eye To Eye album. It’s a scream. There are big hairy scuzz-rock riffs and sci-fi synths bolted to machine-gun snare rolls, the whole shebang then strafed with squiggles of lead-guitar squeal. There are songs that sound like Hawkwind playing Deep Purple covers, or Kiss jamming with Motorhead. Hats are doffed to The Ramones, MC5, David Bowie, The Who. The pachouli-scented spirit of T. Rex’s Marc Bolan hovers over one mutant electric-boogie shuffle.”
– Sunday Star-Times.
“Neatly turned fuzz-caked riffs and shouty choruses keep the hooks coming” – Uncut
“busting out electrifying riff-action, sci-fi squeals and anthemic primal howls in their own signature manner.” – Undertheradar
“Eye to Eye just proves The Datsuns will forever be the coolest ticket in town” – stuff.co.nz
“A huge sounding, heavy riffing and fun rock and roll record” – Loud Magazine
“Seven years in the making, but it sounds seamless and fresh and it touches on many classic periods of Rock (& Roll).” – 13th Floor
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