Fovea just released debut album Pencil Me In on its Omad label, and now the New York quartet has a video for first single “Cost Of.” The script for the cool-but-creepy clip was written by vocalist/guitarist/keyboardist Max Weigel, who says, “The basic premise for the video hit me around Halloween 2016. I was settling into New York to pursue music, transitioning between a number of jobs and watching a lot of horror movies in a weird pursuit of personal catharsis. The song’s soft sounds mask the distress in its lyrics, so I wanted to bring that to the forefront with the video. Both the yuppie couple and the artist struggle to confront their burdens, but connect by making beautifully disgusting messes out of them.” The video was co-directed by drummer Jake DeNicola and Hil Steadman, who both also shot all the footage. Says DeNicola, “It was really fun taking this raw script that Max wrote and making it visual with Hil. It allowed me to focus purely on visual storytelling and interpreting someone else’s vision. The video touches on so many timely topics involving socioeconomics, loss of innocence, spatial politics, the American dream and employment.” We are proud to premiere “Cost Of” today on magnetmagazine.com. Check it out now, and go see Fovea on February 18 at Sunnyvale in Brooklyn with No Ice and Clones.
