Plaiins release new music video for ‘Blood Doping’
PLAIINS have released a new music video!
The new music video, for the track Blood Doping, is the brand new single from the multi-national rock band and marks their first new music since their Puppet EP, which was released back in July.
Speaking about the new single, frontman Chris Reardon says, “I wanted us to explore some new sounds and approaches and Blood Doping was the first song written for our upcoming new record. I had recently read an article about Lance Armstrong and the blood doping scandal and soon after started messing around with some chords on an acoustic guitar. It’s very rare with PLAIINS any song starts on an acoustic guitar, but this one came really fast and the idea for the song and lyrics came out very fast in one sitting. The whole blood doping scandal got me thinking on a broader spectrum and the motivation behind it all. Man’s desire to be the best as something regardless of collateral damage, fairness or regulation.
The character in lyrics became a Picasso-like, almost cartoonishly vulgar protagonist with a relentless addiction and desire to fulfil their lust. Following that I then demoed the song and sent it to the guys and they loved it. We then went worked with our producer Manuel Renner down at Ueberlaerm Studios and really worked the song. It was the first time we all sat down as well and also worked on some of the lyrics refining them. It was really fun and I really enjoyed the process of all of us throwing ideas and trying to get the lyrics as strong as we could. We then finished off some of the recordings back in our studio in Hamburg.
We shot a music video working with Tim Erdmann who we’ve worked with on all the music videos so far. Flo (guitars) and I directed the video and we wanted something that used interesting shots and angles and pulled from surrealist paintings and photography incorporating band performance and some gnarley bloody singing from me [laughs]! In a very cool king jacket I must add that Flo found online. We’re excited that this is the first song released, something a bit different from us but still retaining a lot of the PLAIINS characteristics.”
Watch the official music video for Blood Doping here:
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