In the Official Video for Draag's effusively dreamy Ghost Leak, as directed by band mates Adrian Acosta and Jessica Huang, Huang stands stoically poised and masked amid California shops and landscapes. Perfectly still, at one point, a man walks right past as if she is a store mannequin. The stark imagery is a perfect counter position to the electro half step dreaminess of Draag's aesthetic and a direct reflection of the song's meaning / inspiration:
"ghost leak" is the feeling of being completely invisible and inconsequential
"ghost leak" is also a message to someone we lost — to let them know they weren’t invisible
-Draag
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
Draag began as a revival of a compilation of songs musician and songwriter Adrian Acosta recorded on cassette using a karaoke machine dual tape deck when he was 10 years old. In an environment where being in a gang was more in vogue than composing music, young Adrian crafted an album every other week for his ears only. Since the reworking of those songs in 2013, the next four years were spent in the isolation of a forgotten LA neighborhood exploring and expanding the project’s identity as a 5-piece. As preparations for a full length were forming, illness and personal challenges forced the band to confront why the project should continue to exist. Recognizing the privilege of being able to create manifested the EP “Nontoxic Process,” refined from scratch with rudimentary gear. The EP became an answer to everything artificially driven and a need to feel something other than sickness. The group is continuing to develop what will be their first full length in the coming year.
For more information, refer to the following: black and bruise colored rose, abrasive yet dreaming yet, uncorrupted feeling, clean/dirty pain, self-auscultation, deafeningly honest, haven’t given up.
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