Hello friends…We are thrilled to announce that our second single, titled “Dead End Pools” and its accompanying video are out today, and are available to stream and purchase on all the platforms. Below is a part of the press release, the video link and the links to pre- order, (us and Europe) or to simply listen to the song! Big hug and love, and thank you for your open hearts and ears;) xoxJess
Today, Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter share their new video for “Dead End Pools”, taken from Forever, I’ve Been Being Born, their first new album since 2011’s Marble Son. Forever, I’ve Been Being Born arrives on the 28th November on LP/CD/DL via Ideologic Organ in Europe/UK/Asia/South America. Southern Lord to release the album in North America and Australasia.
Jesse’s comments on the song and video:
Dead End Pools was written as a love song, a testament to the “endurance test” that is my musical partner Phil Wandscher and our relationship. I always say, we share the same heart.
There was a documentary airing on PBS one night, where they were talking about Pacific salmon spawning in “dead end pools”, before swimming up steam to die. I grabbed my guitar… At the time, Phil was living out of his van, and dare I say, I was holding onto my life and to our musical “apparatus”, for dear life. I think I may have written from the perspective of being dead already, because a part of me was at that time. It had/has been a tough decade for us both. I wanted to pay homage to the notion that you are what you leave behind. In this case a song. The struggles are just part of the eternal cacophony of existence.
The divine spark, the love, the friendship, always overcame the darkness and difficulties of those days and continues to nourish us. Despite ourselves, we were once again saved through song. Whatever that entity that lives inside music “is”, it found us, and led us back to each other and ourselves.
About the video, Jesse adds:
The video was shot by our friend, musician Mike Antone, who lives and grew up in the mountains and rivers of North Bend, Washington. He brought us into his world of Rattlesnake Lake. A town had once thrived where we now frolic in this footage, that had been overcome by a massive flood at the turn of the last century, most of the building’s remnants submerged beneath the lake. But the mighty tree stumps remain, and seem so alive — ancient and magnificent wonders. I love how the video brings them back to life as they are witnessing us, while we search for each other among the ruins.
pre -order on Band Camp (home page)