Grim and wry death rock anthem signals release for Scorpion Tea
“In a Vile Suit,” the third single from New York's Scorpion Tea, is a cacophonous storm and a visually rich, horror-inspired trip of a music video through the most heinous of circumstances ever imagined: joining a band.
Dense and discordant guitar shrieks, pounding drums, sumptuous fuzzed-out bass, and sinister sung-spoke vocals set the tone for the story in guitarist Christian Cruz’s directorial debut. A mysterious undulating figure in a mask lures Pepto G. — who plays bass for the band — into a mysterious and baroque garage sale. "What happens after that," states drummer Edley ODowd (Psychic TV, Toilet Boys), "you’ll just have to see for yourself." According to Cruz, “In a Vile Suit” represents a person escaping reality by embodying a different avatar in order to let their darkest desires come to the foreground.
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Along with the single, Scorpion Tea has announced the pre-order of their full-length album
The band's self-titled debut album is releasing worldwide on October 27th, just in time for a certain spooky holiday.
Recorded to analog tape and crafted under the scorching Los Angeles summer sun at Studio 22, Scorpion Tea's sessions were led by producer Tomas Dolas (of Osees). “We spent six days in the brutal end of summer heat, with tons of equipment running, causing the heat outside to match the heat inside,” explains Cruz, "It was nothing less than hallucinatory."
While the well-rehearsed and prepared quartet brought the power of performance, expressivity and their uncompromising ethics, Dolas and studio partner Joo Joo Ashworth (Air Bol Bol) also brought unique devices into the sessions, including a legendary Eventide H910 Harmonizer, to assist with the album's unique character. "Scorpion Tea were a real pleasure to work with,” marks Dolas, “Truly monsters playing broken instruments! They had such a great raw and dystopian energy in the studio. I think all that heat definitely got infused into the tracks!"
Scorpion Tea's self-titled full-length, available for pre-order now on limited edition random-color vinyl with metallic foil-stamped jacket, is a captivating immersion of dark, heavy, and psychedelic where creativity knows no bounds. Pre-orders receive "In a Vile Suit," "They're Thriving Without Us," and "Scarlet Misquote" immediately.
As a bonus, name your price on Bandcamp for four acute remixes of "In a Vile Suit" from Canada's Employer, labelmates DEATHDANCE, BRIDES, from Norway and Darkness_io.
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