Kyle Craft Reveals Video for "Eye of a Hurricane" from Dolls of Highland out now on Sub Pop
Kyle CReveals official video for
“Eye of a Hurricane” from Dolls of Highland
WATCH: “Eye of a Hurricane” by Kyle Craft
You can now watch Kyle Craft’s “Eye of a Hurricane,” one of the standout tracks from Dolls of Highland, his acclaimed debut. The new visual was co-directed by Craft and Tyler Bertram.
The “Eye of a Hurricane” video finds Kyle Craft leaving a bar after a squabble with a romantic partner only to find himself wandering the streets at night. He stumbles upon a party where he is lured inside and dressed in drag. Shortly after, he returns to the bar and steals away his previous partner’s new squeeze. What a fox, that Craft.
Craft had this to sayof the video, “I wanted something quick with a candid feel to it. One of my roommates had his annual drag birthday get together and it seemed like the story would sort of write itself if we just started shooting. I feel like we approached this in the same way I approached the album… Hit record, see what happens.”
Dolls of Highland is now available on CD / LP / DL / CASS worldwide through Sub Pop. The twelve track album features the singles “Lady of the Ark,” “Eye of a Hurricane,” “Pentecost,” and “Future Midcity Massacre.” Dolls of Highland was written, recorded and produced by Craft, mixed by Brandon Summers and Benjamin Weikel of The Helio Sequence at the Old Jantzen Building in Portland, and mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound.
Dolls of Highland is available for purchase from Sub Pop Mega Mart, iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, and Bandcamp. The limited “Loser” edition on pink with black-swirled vinyl while sold out via the Megamart, is still available at independent retailers near you (while supplies last).
What people have said about Kyle Craft:
“Kyle Craft is no shrinking violet, possessing a flamboyant voice that he matches with suitably glammy showtunes…many of his songs have a Southern fidelity…delivered with an indie pop skew and then embellished with his own prodigious gift for showmanship. It’s a head turning mix, a sort of pop-art take on Southern gothic and highly infectious.” [8/10] – Uncut
“Louisiana’s answer to Jobriath; a big hair and a voice shrill enough to pose a threat to amalgam fillings, Craft’s nostalgia for junk shop glam and ‘70s piano pomp reaches teenage peak rampage here.” [“Eye of a Hurricane”] – MOJO
“A swamp bar jukebox loaded with British glitter and Seventies Southern rock; a crawfish boil aboard ELO’s spacecraft.” [10 New Artists You Need To Know] – Rolling Stone
“…Melds the voodoo-infused mythology of the South with rambunctious glam rock, and Kyle Craft summons you into its world like a carnival barker wooing customers into a funhouse…vivid, immersive storytelling and sharply focused, fat-free songs that have the lived-in feel of 40-year-old FM-radio favorites.” [8.1/10] – Pitchfork
“Kyle Craft is a 27-year-old singer/songwriter from Louisiana, who in his past life was either a glam-rock idol or frontman for a power-metal band. His sound is a swampy ’70s boogie that splits the difference between Dr. John and David Bowie…but his voice is a captivating, armor-piercing howl that gives his first album Dolls of Highland its own character, and keeps it from ever feeling explicitly retro. The engrossing LP, recorded in Portland with two members of Sub Pop veterans Helio Sequence helping to mix, has more of an out-of-time quality to it, with the moseying piano shuffle of “Eye of the Hurricane” and the chilling Spectorian balladry of “Lady of the Ark” existing as standards in some alternate-universe classic-rock canon – SPIN.com
“Like many artists from the South, Craft has a conflicted relationship with the region’s cultural duality, a topic he tackles on “Lady Of The Ark.” Shrouded in guitars and organ, he caustically wails, “Swing low, low sweet heathen / Swing for the wretch and the rock and roll kid,” a line he says he wrote in response to the “shame, shame thing that ‘church folk’ tend to do so often,” and which doesn’t sit well with Craft. “Roam this earth repeat it / All this sin until this wicked world makes sense in time,” he defiantly growls near the song’s end. Craft’s roaming days may be done for now, but “Lady Of The Ark” shows his music as wild-eyed and restless” – [“Lady of the Ark” / “Songs We Love”] – NPR Music