Ceremony – “Dark Summer”

See the photo credit up there? "Martin Sorrondeguy" — the same Martin Sorrondeguy, presumably, from Los Crudos and Limp Wrist. (I don't think there's two Martin Sorrondeguys.) That means that Ceremony got a DIY punk legend to take their press pictures. That's fucking sick. It also makes perfect sense, since Ceremony are DIY punk legends themselves.

Next month, California underground institution Ceremony will release their new album Tell Me Your Dream. I have heard it, and it rules. You might've already gotten that impression from the early singles "Other Hells" and "Death Destruction Mayhem." Yesterday, Ceremony shared the video for "Dark Summer," another single from the LP. While the past two songs leaned into their hardcore roots, this one sounds closer to the post-punk sound that they employed on their last full-length, 2019's In The Spirit World Now. Here's what lead singer Ross Farrar says about it:

In Rock ‘n Roll music, feedback occurs when a guitar is purposely moved too close to an amplifier — like a dark summer — when dread finds you amid brilliant sunshine, it feels disorienting, confusing, and chaotic. What you’re left with is malaise, doldrums of sorts that are both beautiful and terrifying.

Ceremony know all about the doldrums. Check out the Joshua Cannon-directed "Dark Summer" video below.

Tell Me Your Dream is out 8/7 on Relapse.