Moon Tooth release new music video for ‘Alpha Howl’
MOON TOOTH have released a new music video!
The new music video, for the track Alpha Howl, is taken from the Long Island-based band’s upcoming new album, Phototroph, which is scheduled to be released in May this year.
“There’s nothing more precious in life than finding your true purpose,” explains vocalist John Carbone of the themes behind the new song. “It’s a miracle in and of itself. Equally impacting is the misery of finding it and then being kept from it. When I’m home, sleeping in a comfy bed in my comfy apartment, I toss and turn furiously feeling in every sense of the word, restless. But touring all these years, sleeping on filthy hardwood floors in punk houses, wearing the same sweat-drenched show clothes from days ago, I sleep like a baby because my heart, mind and spirit are nourished. Of course it’s important to remember my privilege: I have an apartment, a bed, and I am grateful, but I have worked to put food on the table doing things I hate and having found true purpose, I think it’s reasonable to want to work my ass off at that for survival. Alpha Howl is about emotionally, philosophically, and spiritually starving to death.”
Speaking to the background of the new music video, guitarist Nick Lee says of the Tom Flynn-directed clip, “we had been working through a few more ‘serious’ video concepts for Alpha Howl but once the Goodfellas idea happened we just couldn’t stop laughing and knew it was the winner. We’re four Italian-Americans from Long Island so that movie is just essential and over the years we’ve fielded plenty of jokes around having a Carbone and a Romanelli in the band. I remember one interviewer making a joke about reading the names and thinking ‘what is this, the Long Island mafia?’ It’s obviously not meant to be tied to the lyrics or anything but it was incredibly fun to make and we hope people will get some laughs out of it!”
Watch the official music video for Alpha Howl here:
Phototroph is set for release on May 13th via Pure Noise Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
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