Covey releases new music video for ‘Cut On The Crease’
COVEY has released a new music video!
The new music video, for the track Cut On The Crease, is taken from COVEY‘s (aka Tom Freeman) upcoming new album, Class of Cardinal Sin, which is expected to be released in Spring next year, via Rise Records.
The basis for the album comes after Freeman did a Tour To Nobody, playing shows in rural locations across the American northeast for, well, nobody. He recorded the audio and video, turning the audio into a record, and using the video to launch a series of TikTok videos.
The latter started to find its audience, but it wasn’t until Freeman started posting videos about his upcoming album Class Of Cardinal Sin that fans truly began to respond. Only a few weeks later, COVEY had amassed over one million followers on the platform, each tuning in to learn about (and swap theories concerning) the increasingly intricate semi-fictional universe he intends to build through the record.
Speaking about the new music video, Freeman says, “Benjamin and Gabe‘s stories were the first two in the TikTok series so they laid the foundation and Suzie‘s story wrapped it all up whilst finally providing an explanation for all the deaths, so it felt natural that these were the characters we chose to bring to life in the music video. Plus these characters were some fan favourites. I’m excited for fans to see the stories told in this totally different medium and couldn’t be happier with how it turned out, the personalities definitely come across in the video how I intended them to and how fans have come to know them. Through all the lore, fan theories, cosplay and fan art, the character identities have only gotten more and more vivid, so much so that they began to transcend their small toy bodies even before this video.”
Watch the official music video for Cut On The Crease here:
Alongside the release of the new music video, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming album below. The album cover features a diorama depicting what, at first glance, appears to be a simple class graduation photo, complete with a blackboard with white lettering at the front. Upon inspection though, the classmates are in disrepair. Freeman created the scene from top to bottom: he ordered the figurines, Frankensteined them to make new ones, hand-painted them all, and arranged them into the class photo. Each figurine is a character with a lengthy backstory, and most collide with the other characters in the photo.
“High school was such a shitty time for me and I always saw it as aiding so many parts of what went wrong for me as an adult, problems I have to this day,” says Freeman. “Class of Cardinal Sin is the place you are when you’re in high school, and you graduate from all of those things into adulthood, but because of all the troubles that you experienced, you graduate to have all of these problems. ‘Congratulations, you got your degree in depression and anxiety.’ I thought it was a fun concept.”
Track List:
1. Cut On The Crease
2. 1991
3. Why Am I Alive?
4. Four Dollar Sandwich
5. Sam Jam
6. Point Mutation
7. Crooked Spine
8. Local Anesthesia
9. Sound Of A Gun
10. Marzipan Pills
Class of Cardinal Sin is expected to be released in Spring next year via Rise Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
For more information on COVEY like his official page on Facebook.
