Directed by Leigh Violet, the “Oxytocin” video is elegantly stylized and features Drab Majesty’s Deb Demure and Mona D and cameos from Kennedy Ashlyn (SRSQ), Jackie Dunn Smith, Dan Phillips (True Widow) and others. The director comments: “We're invited subtly inward, beyond the persona into a vulnerable zone, calling to the surface subtle insights about the alternate environs Drab Majesty seem to inhabit. A mood piece eschewing narrative in favor of aesthetic intuition, the video captures a fleeting space between dimensions that disappears again just when we begin to latch hold.”
Drab Majesty's Mona D commented on "Oxytocin," saying: "The music was written on a demo rig by Deb while in the backstage of a Warsaw venue waiting to soundcheck. We were on tour with Kaelan Mikla and they were soundchecking while Deb offered this 2-chord repetitive idea that he later expounded upon to create to music for the song. Lyrically the track points to the salad days of a relationship and it’s fleeting energy - The games that are played to maintain the magic. Oxytocin is this fleeting energy of the initial love bond - that seminal semi-permanent spark of enlightenment and obsession only to expire over the course of time and experience."
On their new album Modern Mirror, Drab Majesty continue to dig their heels into modern paranoia, hypnotic melodies, and mystical lyricism. Inspired by their travels to Athens, Greece, Drab Majesty blow the dust off the antiquarian myth of Ovid’s “Narcissus” and craft a modern retelling anchored by meandering guitar, dreamscaping vocals, and glimmering synth. Each song tells a piece of the story, in which the listener’s own self-identity has become warped and dissociated through rapidly expanding technology, losing touch with the origins of their own personalities.
A journey of self-reflection, nostalgia, love, beauty, and heartbreak told across eight addictive and emotional synth pop anthems, Modern Mirror reinvents classic musical tropes one post-modern tale at a time. Each song tells a piece of the story, in which the listener’s own self-identity has become warped and dissociated through rapidly expanding technology, losing touch with the origins of their own personalities.
Pooling efforts from a top-tier gang of collaborators, Modern Mirror was produced by Josh Eustis (Telefon Tel Aviv) and mastered by Dave Cooley, with appearances by Jasamine White-Gluz (No Joy) and Justin Meldal-Johnson (NIN, Beck, M83, Air). The record will be released on July 12 via Dais Records and is available for pre-order here.
Catch Drab Majesty on the road this summer and fall, and stay tuned for more dispatches.
Modern Mirror — Track Listing:
1. A Dialogue
2. The Other Side
3. Ellipsis
4. Noise of the Void
5. Dolls in the Dark
6. Oxytocin
7. Long Division
8. Out of Sequence
DRAB MAJESTY — NORTH AMERICAN HEADLINE TOUR:
July 24 - San Diego - Music Box ^
July 26 - LA - The Fonda Theatre ^
July 27 - Phoenix - Crescent Ballroom ^
July 28 - Santa Fe - Meow Wolf ^
July 30 - Dallas - Deep Ellum Art Co ^
July 31 - Austin - Mohawk ^
August 1 - Houston - White Oak ^
August 2 - New Orleans - One Eyed Jacks ^
August 3 - Atlanta - The Masquerade (Hell) ^
August 4 - Nashville - Exit/In ^
August 6 - Durham - The Pinhook ^
August 7 - Richmond - The Broadberry ^
August 8 - Washington DC - Union Stage ^
August 9 - Brooklyn - Music Hall Of Williamsburg ^
August 11 - Philadelphia - Underground Arts *
August 13 - Boston - The Sinclair *
August 14 - Montreal - Theatre Fairmount *
August 15 - Toronto - Velvet Underground *
August 16 - Detroit - El Club *
August 17 - Cleveland - Now That’s Class *
August 19 - Chicago - Thalia Hall *
August 20 - Minneapolis - Fine Line *
August 22 - Denver - 3 Kings Tavern *
August 23 - Salt Lake City - Urban Lounge *
August 24 - Boise - Visual Arts Collective *
August 26 - Seattle - Neumos *
August 27 - Vancouver - The Astoria *
August 28 - Portland - Wonder Ballroom *
August 30 - San Francisco - Great American Music Hall *
^ w/ Body of Light, HIDE
* w/ Body of Light, Xeno & Oaklander
DRAB MAJESTY — EUROPEAN HEADLINE TOUR:
September 18 UK, London - Dingwalls %
September 19 UK, Manchester - Soup Kitchen %
September 21 UK, Leeds - Wharf Chambers %
September 22 UK, Cardiff - Clwb Ifor Bach %
September 24 FR, Paris - Petit Bain %
September 25 FR, Lille - L'Aeronef %
September 26 NL, Nijmegen - Merleyn %
September 27 BE, Antwerp - Het Bos %
September 28 NL, Utrecht - DB´s %
September 30 DE, Köln - Bumann & Sohn %
October 1 DE, Wiesbaden - Schlachthof %
October 2 DE, München - Ampere %
October 3 DE, Leipzig - Conne Island %
October 4 DE, Hannover - Bei Chez Heinz %
October 5 DE, Berlin - Bi Nuu %
October 11 GR, Athens - The Temple
October 15 DE, Hamburg - Übel & Gefährlich #
October 16 DK, Copenhagen - Vega #
October 17 SE, Gothenborg - Musikens Hus #
October 18 NO, Oslo - BLA #
October 19 SE, Stockholm - Fristaden #
October 20 SE, Malmo - Plan B #
October 22 PL, Poznan - Pod Minogą #
October 23 PL, Gdansk - B90 #
October 24 PL, Warsaw - Hydrozagadka #
October 25 CZ, Prague - Klub 007 #
October 26 SK, Bratislava - Kulturák klub #
October 28 HU, Budapest - Dürer Kert #
October 29 AT, Wien - Arena #
October 30 SL, Lubijana - Gromka #
October 31 IT, Vicenza - Vinilie #
November 1 CH, Martigny - Caves du Manoir #
November 2 IT, Ravenna - Bronson #
% w/ SRSQ
# w/ Body of Light
Artist photo by: Selena Rox
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