NYC-based quartet Laveda release their highly anticipated third studio album Love, Darla today via Bar/None Records. Their most ambitious and visceral record to date, Love, Darla finds the noise rock/shoegaze band exploring the jagged edges and fractured beauty of their New York home, fusing blistering noise with moments of raw vulnerability. Alongside the album, Laveda have also unveiled the video for its focus track, “Tim Burton’s Tower.”
“’Tim Burton’s Tower’ is the oldest song on the album,” says vocalist/guitarist Ali Genevich. “It started as a garage band demo I made on my phone. There was this old church that you could see from our living room in Troy, NY and it always reminded me of something out of a Tim Burton film. I think I named the demo and planned on changing it at some point, but it stuck. We felt the song was strong enough at its core where we could really interpret it in any way and still make it sound cool, so we just rehearsed and recorded it in the same style as everything else on the album. I think it serves as a nice breath of fresh air on the record.”
The track’s accompanying video, directed by filmmaker/photographer Mars Alba, was shot on the Rockaway Peninsula on the Southern edge of Queens, NY and captures the liberating escapism at the heart of the song. “It’s really just ‘I-wanna-be-a-movie-star,’” Ali continues. “Walking around with my headphones, listening to my favorite song. Running around knowing I’m in my own world and nobody can touch me is one of the best feelings in the world.”
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Rey Roldan
