Empty Pools share new video; announce new tour dates

EMPTY POOLS SHARE NEW VIDEO FOR ‘EXPLODED VIEW’ BELOW. SINGLE TAKEN FROM DEBUT ALBUM SATURN RERUNS, OUT 4TH NOVEMBER ON BATTLE WORLDWIDE

BAND RECENTLY TOURED WITH ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER; MORE UK DATES THIS AUTUMN

Bristol band Empty Pools today share their new video for ‘Exploded View’, the lead single from their debut album Saturn Reruns. Set for a 4th November release on Battle Worldwide, it’s a fraying short fuse of a thing lit by incendiary rhythmic elements, claustrophobic existentialism inspired by “the fall” (a revolt against one’s makers, not the grizzly post-punk Mancunian stalwarts) and showcases 23-year-old vocalist Leah Pritchard’s incisive snarl.

EMPTY POOLS – Exploded View from Empty Pools on Vimeo.

The video for ‘Exploded View’ was directed by Simon Ainge and the DOP was Simon Kotowicz, the two Simons taking influence from Vaughan Oliver and Nigel Grierson and their famed work as 23 Envelope to create the distinctive visuals.
Saturn Reruns injects a once ailing West Country music scene with boundless hope, epitomised in the glittery joie de vivre of ‘Murals’, or the unreservedly hypnotic ‘Televised’, which sounds like the sisters Deal’s Last Splash bred with that distinctly carefree abandon of the now-voguish ’90s into which it was first thrust. That was the decade in which Empty Pools endured their formative years, and consequently the time at which their singer first began to formalise her acutest of attentions to detail.
Ultimately, the name came from “around 50 stupid tweets, a few pub trips and an afternoon drinking beer in Ben’s garden. All that time to realise we’d exhausted all our ideas and hadn’t actually found anything we all agreed on.” It’s a neat juxtaposition of the critical and the jovial that mirrors the seriously contemplated influences to have formed the album in the first place (the initial classified ad posted by guitarist Ben and drummer Aaron listed the likes of Pylon, Marnie Stern, Talking Heads, Helium and Karate, attracting kindred spirits in bassist Matt, and Leah) and the at times ingenuous sonic fare it comprises.

EMPTY POOLS LIVE
21st September – Bristol, Brisfest
12th October – Bristol, Simple Things Festival
2nd November – Bristol, Rise (album launch)
9th November – London, Betsey Trotwood

‘Exploded View’ audio

‘Small Talk’ (Menomena remix) free MP3