{"id":2448521,"date":"2019-09-10T10:37:39","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T16:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=881771"},"modified":"2019-09-10T10:37:39","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T16:37:39","slug":"see-vivian-girls-haunt-the-valley-in-new-sludge-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/see-vivian-girls-haunt-the-valley-in-new-sludge-video\/","title":{"rendered":"See Vivian Girls Haunt the Valley in New \u2018Sludge\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Sludge_Video-e1568129862107.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Los Angeles trio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/vivian-girls\/\" id=\"auto-tag_vivian-girls\" data-tag=\"vivian-girls\">Vivian Girls<\/a> bring their ethereal fuzz rock to the desert in the new video for \u201cSludge.\u201d It\u2019s the third single off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/vivian-girls-in-the-studio-reunion-album-memory-860720\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">their highly anticipated comeback album<\/a>, <em>Memory<\/em>, out September 20th via Polyvinyl Records.<\/p>\n<p>In their latest visual, Vivian Girls teleport like specters between the mountains and the suburbs \u2014 they even make a pit stop for Slushies at the 7-11. \u201cYou said it matters nothing of what God thinks\/She kills us all,\u201d sings guitarist Cassie Ramone, strumming over a listless stretch of reverb.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Ross Perry, the filmmaker behind the 2019 rock and roll drama <em>Her Smell,<\/em> directed the clip.&nbsp;In the movie, Elizabeth Moss plays a rock star on the path to self-destruction; Ross Perry cited Vivian Girls as a key influence when drawing up the concept.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just counted: there are four different photos of Vivian Girls in the look book I made for <em>Her Smell<\/em>,\u201d he said in a press release. \u201cIf you had told me when I was first seeing them at Death By Audio (or was it Union Pool?) in 2008 (or was it late 2007?) that over a decade later, we\u2019d be collaborating on a music video, I would have been alarmed at the specificity of this prophecy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe notion was to invent a video for \u2018Sludge\u2019 that honored The Valley,\u201d adds Ross Perry, \u201ctoying with suburban nothingness and alienation, honoring filming locations from E.T. that are still emanating traces of decades-old magic. To explore the dichotomy of light and dark, mortal and immortal, self and self. Of then and now\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vivian Girls will kick off their first U.S. tour in five years on October 4th at the Regent in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/vivian-girls-new-sludge-video-881771\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles trio Vivian Girls bring their ethereal fuzz rock to the desert in the new video for \u201cSludge.\u201d It\u2019s the third single off their highly anticipated comeback album, Memory, out September 20th via Polyvinyl Records. In their latest visual, Vivian Girls teleport like specters between the mountains and the suburbs \u2014 they even make [&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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2448521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 14:06:31","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}