Here’s a new video from VA stoner-rock trio Pontiak, who’ve been sneaking up on us all with the guitar-heavy noise they’re cranking out on their homestead in the Blue Ridge Mountains. “Lack Lustre Rush” is the latest from their upcoming tenth album, INNOCENCE, due out January 28 on Thrill Jockey Records.
Here’s a new video from VA stoner-rock trio Pontiak, who’ve been sneaking up on us all with the guitar-heavy noise they’re cranking out on their homestead in the Blue Ridge Mountains. “Lack Lustre Rush” is the latest from their upcoming tenth album, INNOCENCE, due out January 28 on Thrill Jockey Records. The three brothers in Pontiak–Van, Jennings, and Lain Carney–combined efforts and directed this video themselves, and its hallucinogenic whitewash showcases some off-kilter imaginations at work. As the brothers spiral across the blinding white background, leaving trails that resemble those you see on an LSD trip (or, uh, so I’ve been told), they toss apples back and forth from hand to hand in a way that makes gravity appear reversed. Eventually, of course, I realized all three brothers had been hanging upside down while they were filming this video–which also explained one of the brothers’ bizarre hairdo.
But none of these goofy images are really important in favor of the blazing guitars and rocking grooves that Pontiak have for us on this new track. As with the title track for their new album, which we got to hear back in the beginning of December, “Lack Lustre Rush” cranks up the excitement for their new album even further. If the whole thing wails as much as these two tunes, it’s gonna be a perfect album to blast out of your sports car at mind-melting volume once the spring rolls around. But you won’t have to wait that long to get it–INNOCENCE is out on Tuesday, January 28, and you can preorder it from Thrill Jockey right HERE. And you can see the Carney boys deliver their wild sounds to you live and in person on the night of their record release show; they won’t be playing in RVA, but they’ll be at Charlottesville’s Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar (located at 414 E. Main St) that night, and you can grab a ticket to the show right HERE for only $7. It’s just a short drive up 64, and it’ll be worth it to see these guys blow that staid little university town away.
By Andrew Necci
