Premiere: Boise/LA band Tamra exclusively unveil the video for their ambulant free ranging single ‘Omens, Silos’ ahead of new album.

We are honoured to premiere the new video from Boise/LA band Tamra for their single ‘Omens, Silos’.

‘Omens, Silos’ is an angular, wandering single that drifts along on a sea of ambulant guitars and distant vocals. There is sense of free form and anarchic in structure yet precise in delivery, the vocals yearning and expressive.

The lyrics reveal an eloquence of despair:

Excess / So desolate / Don’t end it all in one place.

Kenton Freemuth from the band says of the song:

The song’s sort of about what counts as a wasteland. How the most barren ones are the same ones absolutely filled to the brim—and how we spend most of our time in them. Luxury apartments look like landfills look like $1,100 labradoodles look like LEDs on everyone’s phones.

It’s about how consumption is vacuous. How that’s a paradox—and how that’s also part of a feedback loop spinning pretty close to home. We’re products of our environment, which is products.

So the song’s about us haunting these wastelands, and them haunting us—and back and forth and back and forth. Because we made them; and they made us. And so on.

The video has a strong message – a field of immutable waste changing in form but not presence – a pile that is almost self-aware, with bands members appearing weary and defeated – sometimes part of the problem, sometimes as observers.

It captures the enigma of the band and the intelligent messages behind the song:

The track is out now and available to stream and download via all the usual sites. It comes off the band’s forthcoming album ‘Light Reading’ due out in October.

Feature Photograph: Blaise Prokop

Written by Backseat Mafia