Image
Video Premiere

Dream Pop Luminaries Mahogany Unveil New Shimmering Video for “A Scaffold”

NYC-based dream pop duo Mahogany have always been a band near and dear to our heart. Over many years, a veritable bounty of releases, and a handful of lineup shifts over time, the band has remained a live fixture throughout NYC’s underground scene, opening up for the likes of Anika, Interpol, and Luna. Consisting now of multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Andrew Prinz and guitarist/vocalist Jaclyn Slimm, the pair have just released a new two-track single via Renovo. The single, their first release in nearly eleven years, expands on some of the more new wave/disco sounds that were hinted on in 2013’s eight-minute jam “Phase Break.” B-side “Polyvalence” features bubbling synth bass and a soaring string line before kicking into guitar-driven bliss. The track recalls the original Factory Records band The Wake as they progressed from dark post-punk band to indie-pop darlings. However, the A-side is a bonafide smash, with a high-necked bass groove and scintillating guitars sitting alongside perfectly programmed synthesizers, with a vocal melody from Slimm that is both heavenly and driving all at once.

The band has just released a video for the track, shot in Manhattan and directed by Julia Khoroshilov. The video is a beautifully textured affair, with purple and pink light shimmers adding an ethereal glow to Slimm’s  travels through both the beautiful and gritty New York City streets. “We sought to interpret the modes of self-empowerment in the lyric through traversing and penetrating a brutalist urban landscape,” says Slimm.

Watch the video for “A Scaffold” below, and be sure to pick up a copy of the single via Bandcamp.

Header photo by Mats Bakken

Follow Mahogany:

Frank Deserto

Bassist of The Harrow, curator/writer at Cherry Red Records, and blogger at Systems of Romance.

Recent Posts

  • Bands

Los Angeles Synth-Pop Outfit Male Tears Releases Self-Titled Debut Album on Vinyl for the First Time

I’ve been swimming in an ocean of tears I went swimming in all of my fears And every day is…

1 day ago
  • Bands

Beauty and Despair — Swiss Coldwavers Future Faces Drift Among the Ashes of Lost Tomorrows in “Memoria”

Our entire life Was like a spell of beauty and despair This old delusion Hectic with our own selfish thirst…

2 days ago
  • Bands

Chasing Ghosts by the Black Sea — Georgia-based Darkwavers Chronotape Release Poignant “Strangers” EP

Yesterday is history And today is just misery So we say "Long live the King" Oh, he ruined everything Hailing…

2 days ago
  • Bands

Melbourne Artist Claire Birchall Blends Tremulous Art Pop Melodies With Gothic Undertones in “The Haunting”

I don’t mean to rain on your parade But sometimes when I bend, I break Australian artist Claire Birchall, Melbourne's…

3 days ago
  • Bands

NYC Darkwavers MIDNIGHTCHOIR Release Spine-tingling Video for “Tempted” From Their “Temptation (Demos)” EP — Plus Review

You can keep your revolution if we can't dance to it. Because we're not going out on our knees.  We're…

3 days ago
  • Bands

Guitarist Slim Dunlap of The Replacements Passes Away at 73

The Replacements' guitarist Bob “Slim” Dunlap has passed away at 73, leaving behind a legacy as enduring as the melodies…

4 days ago
Sticky Footer Banner with Close Button