Recent Breaking Out stars the Men have a brightly shining and bracingly intense new album out, fittingly called New Moon, so it’s about time that the Brooklyn five-piece had a proper music video. We first heard the noisy pastoral punk squaller “I Saw Her Face” last month, but the band has since dusted off the single for a solid visual treatment. The band directs the above clip, which was shot entirely using VHS video cameras and afterwards edited using modern means. There’s footage from the road, a gnarly pink sunset, a smoke-spewing guitar, and a cigarette-smoking monk among numerous other odd highlights. Each band member also gets a little individual (green) screen time, and bassist Ben Greenberg gets a drumstick thrown at him. According to singer Mark Perro, “We were trying to make a video like Earth Wind & Fire’s ‘Let’s Groove.'” So when you’re done with “I Saw Her Face,” ride with this:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_XOY7lsBVpo%3Frel%3D0
The Men tour dates:
April 10 – Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom
April 11 – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall
April 12 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue and 7th Street Entry
April 13 – Northfield, MN – The Cave (Carleton College)
April 14 – Winnipeg, MB – West End Cultural Centre
April 15 – Saskatoon, SK – Amigos
April 16 – Calgary, AB – Broken City
April 17 – Edmonton, AB – Pawn Shop
April 19 – Vancouver, BC – Biltmore Cabaret
April 20 – Seattle, WA – Vera Project
April 21 – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
April 22 – San Francisco, CA – Rickshaw Stop
April 24 – Las Vegas, NV – The Bunkhouse
April 25 – Salt Lake City, UT – 1133 Richards Street
April 26 – Denver, CO – Hi Dive
April 27 – Omaha, NE – Slowdown
April 28 – St. Louis, MO – Firebird
April 29 – Memphis, TN – TBD
April 30 – Nashville, TN – The Stone Fox
May 1 – Durham, NC – Pinhook
May 2 – Washington, DC – DC 9
May 3 – Providence, RI – Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)
May 29 – Birmingham, AL – The Bottletree Cafe
May 30 – New Orleans, LA – Circle Bar
May 31 – Austin, TX – Chaos in Tejas
June 1 – Austin, TX – Chaos in Tejas
