{"id":794685,"date":"2019-04-10T08:27:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T14:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=820467"},"modified":"2019-04-10T08:27:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T14:27:04","slug":"watch-potterys-playful-alien-starring-the-craft-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/watch-potterys-playful-alien-starring-the-craft-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Pottery\u2019s Playful, Alien-Starring \u2018The Craft\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-10-at-9.34.34-AM-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Pottery veer from yelped post-punk to droning kraut-rock grooves to atmospheric vocal harmonies on their new song \u201cThe Craft,\u201d which appears on the Montreal indie-rock band\u2019s upcoming debut EP, <em>No. 1<\/em>, out May 10th.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The quintet paired the track with a wacky music video that follows singer-guitarist Austin Boylan as an alien that falls to Earth and observes the various forms of ordinary human behavior: the \u201cEmployee of the Month,\u201d the \u201cWoods Master,\u201d the \u201cExtreme Athlete\u201d and the \u201cArtisan.\u201d The extra-terrestrial mimics each person\u2019s behavior \u2014 from making phone calls in an office cubicle to crafting a birdhouse in a workshop, and he ultimately inspires them all to unite and smash the tools of their trade in a parking lot, <em>Office Space<\/em>-style.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In a statement about \u201cThe Craft,\u201d Pottery said they wanted to \u201cexplore the unconscious oddities of everyday life and how an outsider alien (Austin\u2019s character) may interpret these trivial actions.\u201d They continue, \u201cIn the video each band member has a niche hobby that not only lends itself to blind emulation from the outsider, but also represents each member\u2019s individuality within our collective project.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Pottery will launch an international tour in early May, followed by a North American leg (supporting Fontaine D.C.) that kicks off September 6th in Brooklyn, New York.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-potterys-playful-alien-starring-the-craft-video-820467\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pottery veer from yelped post-punk to droning kraut-rock grooves to atmospheric vocal harmonies on their new song \u201cThe Craft,\u201d which appears on the Montreal indie-rock band\u2019s upcoming debut EP, No. 1, out May 10th. The quintet paired the track with a wacky music video that follows singer-guitarist Austin Boylan as an alien that falls to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-794685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 02:19:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}