SWEET APPLE: Release "Summer's Gone" Video.
September 24, 2017
Sweet Apple, the rock 'n' roll band featuring J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr., Heavy Blanket), Tim Parnin (Cobra Verde, Chuck Mosley), John Petkovic (Cobra Verde, Death of Samantha, Guided By Voices) and Dave Sweetapple (Witch, Eerie), gives music fans a goodbye elegy to summer today with the release of their new video, "Summer's Gone". Shot amid the abandoned buildings of Cleveland, Ohio and the swaying palm trees of Oceanside, California, the video invokes two very different sensibilities -- imagine J.G. Ballard crossed with the Beach Boys. The clip contrasts a man walking around an empty city (played by NYC-based filmmaker-photographer Tom Jarmusch) and two skateboarders heading toward the sun (Jacob Nunez and Laura Logue). Watch Sweet Apple's "Summer's Gone" video at this location:
"Many of the crumbling, abandoned buildings in Cleveland experienced their summer many years ago and now they sit frozen in some permanent state of fall," says Sweet Apple's John Petkovic, who directed the video and shot the Cleveland portion of it. "They are evocative and full of sadness: The roofs are missing; the windows are smashed; the doors are busted ' and they seem so vulnerable as winter approaches. Seeing them crumbling and abandoned is reminiscent of an excavation site ' a geological dig for remnants of some long-gone America."
Scenes in the video include an abandoned Holiday Inn hotel that Petkovic calls "10 floors of creaky emptiness, complete with a ballroom and a swimming pool." Jarmusch (who has worked with Claire Denis, Robert Frank, Aki Kaurismaki, Ang Lee and his brother Jim Jarmusch) collaborated on the Cleveland footage. "Tom has documented these devastated, abandoned areas of Cleveland in his photo shows and films and we imagined him wandering around an empty city like some post-modern-day Buster Keaton," says Petkovic. "It wasn't hard to stage ' most of these places are empty."
California videographer Lannie Rhoades shot the California sequence, which provides a golden, sunny counterpoint and makes for a stark contrast. "Summer's Gone" also features vocals by Rachel Haden (The Haden Triplets, That Dog). "Summer's Gone" is the second of four Sweet Apple videos from the band's new album, Sing the Night in Sorrow. The ten-song disc is out on Tee Pee Records and is the follow-up to the group's critically acclaimed release, The Golden Age of Glitter, hailed as "throwback power pop that should soothe the soul of just about any riff-loving rock fan" by Esquire and one of the "Best Albums of 2014" by ABC News.
Track listing:
1.) (My Head Is Stuck in The) Traffic
2.) World I'm Gonna Leave You (featuring Mark Lanegan and Robert Pollard)
3.) You Don't Belong to Me (featuring Doug Gillard)
4.) A Girl and a Gun (featuring Rachel Haden)
5.) She Wants to Run (featuring Doug Gillard)
6.) Candles in the Sun (featuring Doug Gillard)
7.) Summer's Gone (featuring Rachel Haden)
8.) Thank You
9.) Crying in the Clouds (featuring Rachel Haden)
10.) Everybody's Leaving (featuring Robert Pollard)
"This album is remarkably appealing, mostly due to its refreshing rawness. This is often a rock record that approaches the genre with a capital R. It's as if the members of Sweet Apple are trying to reclaim the music and bring it back to its grimiest roots." - ABC NEWS
"Filled with pummeling pop songs and the occasional rock ballad, Sing The Night In Sorrow will leave you in awe from beginning to end." - GHETTOBLASTER
"Sweet Apple's casual, low-stakes approach is wholly inviting. Even when the chemistry isn't there, the camaraderie among the collaborators, the shared sensibility, is still felt and when it is there, as with the Haden tracks, it feels like magic." - PASTE
"glammy Big Star-meets-Urge Overkill homage to '60s psych pop and '70s hard rock that serves as an elemental soundtrack to songs about love in loveless times" - MAGNET
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