The band’s second single from their highly anticipated third album, Dance On The Blacktop, has been transformed into an enchanting visual narrative.

Blue Line Baby tells a story of the Kensington/Frankford section of North Philadelphia in the early 1990’s, amidst its full blown opioid outbreak, using street names and landmarks as the stories protagonists. As frontman Domenic Palermo explains:

Looking around at the friends and family that are still around that came from down there, I’ll always be touched by what can come out of all that chaos and suffering. Children forced to learn loss early, faced with immeasurable odds and all the while this train continually hovers over your head, taunting you with its irony that there wasn’t a way out.

With such a provocative narrative, it was only fitting that the music video for the track is equally captivating. There’s a hazy blue aesthetic dominating the clip, which is fitting considering the title of the track. With the help of Mark McCoy, Palermo decided to tell the story of the song’s heroine Cambria, through the eyes of Shakespeare’s timeless tale, ‘Ophelia’ using the Sir John Everett Millais painting as the base. Palermo then brought in visionary projection company, Klip Collective led by Ricardo Rivera whom would take the director’s seat, photographer Bryan Huynh for art direction and stylist Cece Liu. The team wove together an elegant fairy tale of “digital renaissance” as model Sara Skinner treads wearily scene to scene in alluring lights and smoke whilst draped in vintage Maison Margelia.

Catch Nothing on their UK run this December.

December

02 – Brighton, Patterns

03 – London, Oslo

04 – Oxford, The Cellar

05 – Bristol, The Fleece

06 – Manchester, Soup Kitchen

07 – Leeds, The Brudenell Social Club

08 – Glasgow, Stereo

09 – Newcastle, The Cluny

10 – Birmingham, Hare and Hounds

11 – Southampton, Joiners