"I love you like I love white supremacists..."
"Compassion to the Nth Degree" by the Bay area's Rainbow Girls skewers and then grills (rightly so) people, things, societal constructs that are all soul killers (and actual killers) in a way that makes you feel good in the way when you feel good when people say the right thing. The track is hazy, a beautiful mixture of sludge pop, doo wop punk, textures but at it's essence is a folk rock politico pop song. The pop folk nature is brilliant and to me, feels like an amalgam of Mazzy Star and Cheryl Crow. It also has a kind of cross pollination of so many genres that people would sing along at a folk, country or indie rock festival.
I think the sonic things going on tap into Erin Chapin, Caitlin Gowdey and Vanessa May's current artistic aesthetic that is utterly underpinned by the folk side of things and during these divisive times folk of all the sonic art forms might feel like the most unifying. The Official Video as crafted by Sam Chase is glittery fun. Read what the girls have to say about both in the press notey stuff below.
Of the single, the band offers, "If you don’t like protest songs, you’ll love this. In a last-ditch effort to wrench up compassion for those we don’t see eye-to-eye with, we turn to love. This song names a kind of love previously undefined: love for the bigot, love for the thief, love for the destroyer. Infinite compassion. Only light can illuminate the darkness, so this is a sweet little love song for all the sh**heads out there."
Of the video, they add, "We made this video in our living room. We moved all our furniture outside, spent days taping aluminum foil to big pieces of plywood and hanging tinsel curtains. We bought gaudy cakes and donuts and covered them in glitter. We commissioned a custom eggplant emoji piñata from a woman in Oregon because we wanted a metaphor so blatant that even Party City couldn’t help us. We hired our dear friend Sam Chase to take a risk, take a test, and make this video with us (he also has a cameo in the video as our Donut Sommelier). We wanted to create a liminal zone lacking substance. A sugar-coated wonderland reflecting the vapid distractions and bulging vanity we were seeing all over social media, despite the very alarming reality of the world falling apart in every conceivable way. The thing is, we set out to make something airbrushed and fluffy and stupid in order to ridicule an internet culture that can be all of those things, and in doing so had the most fun ever filming a video. We got to makeout with glitter lollipops and roll around in cotton candy clouds- what’s not to love?????"
Of the single, the band offers, "If you don’t like protest songs, you’ll love this. In a last-ditch effort to wrench up compassion for those we don’t see eye-to-eye with, we turn to love. This song names a kind of love previously undefined: love for the bigot, love for the thief, love for the destroyer. Infinite compassion. Only light can illuminate the darkness, so this is a sweet little love song for all the sh**heads out there."
Of the video, they add, "We made this video in our living room. We moved all our furniture outside, spent days taping aluminum foil to big pieces of plywood and hanging tinsel curtains. We bought gaudy cakes and donuts and covered them in glitter. We commissioned a custom eggplant emoji piñata from a woman in Oregon because we wanted a metaphor so blatant that even Party City couldn’t help us. We hired our dear friend Sam Chase to take a risk, take a test, and make this video with us (he also has a cameo in the video as our Donut Sommelier). We wanted to create a liminal zone lacking substance. A sugar-coated wonderland reflecting the vapid distractions and bulging vanity we were seeing all over social media, despite the very alarming reality of the world falling apart in every conceivable way. The thing is, we set out to make something airbrushed and fluffy and stupid in order to ridicule an internet culture that can be all of those things, and in doing so had the most fun ever filming a video. We got to makeout with glitter lollipops and roll around in cotton candy clouds- what’s not to love?????"
Great song. If you don't like it you might be an asshole. Or a white supremacist.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.facebook.com/RainbowGirlsMusic/
https://twitter.com/rainbowgirrs
https://open.spotify.com/artist/5qV8qZrppecEsKTWwCCtA7
https://rainbowgirls.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/rainbowgirlsband/
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/rainbow-girls/944525452
Bay-area trio Rainbow Girls are sharing a music video for their new single, "Compassion to the Nth Degree," while on tour with Ani DiFranco (tour dates below)
Rainbow Girls On Tour
June 17 — Santa Fe Brewing Co. — Santa Fe, NM*
June 18 — Fox Tucson Theatre — Tucson, AZ*
June 19 — Pappy and Harriet's — Pioneertown, CA*
June 21 — Belly Up Tavern — Solana Beach, CA*
June 23 — The Ford— Los Angeles, CA*
June 24 — Kate Wolf Music Festival — Laytonville, CA
July 16 — Lincoln Center — New York City, NY
July 21 — Northwest String Summit — North Plains, OR
July 27 — Ogden Nature Preserve — Ogden, UT
July 28 — Sawtooth Music Festival — Stanley, ID
July 30 — Canmore Folk Music Festival — Canmore, AB
Aug 6 — Petaluma Music Fest — Petaluma, CA
Sept 9 — Music on the Square — Jonesborough, TN
Sept 13 — Americanafest — Nashville, TN
Sept 30 — Sisters Folk Festival — Sisters, OR
*appearing with Ani DiFranco
** At this particular time we find ourselves in a financial pinch due to many factors. We want to keep AP going. It has been a passion project for over 13 years. PLEASE consider donating, we could really use the support. Thanks so much
We get by with a little help from our friends
Rainbow Girls, politico, folk rock, psych folk, hazy rock, sludge pop, dream pop, folk, folk indie, "Compassion to the Nth Degree", anti love song, protest song, sing along,
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.facebook.com/RainbowGirlsMusic/
https://twitter.com/rainbowgirrs
https://open.spotify.com/artist/5qV8qZrppecEsKTWwCCtA7
https://rainbowgirls.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/rainbowgirlsband/
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/rainbow-girls/944525452
Bay-area trio Rainbow Girls are sharing a music video for their new single, "Compassion to the Nth Degree," while on tour with Ani DiFranco (tour dates below)
Rainbow Girls On Tour
June 17 — Santa Fe Brewing Co. — Santa Fe, NM*
June 18 — Fox Tucson Theatre — Tucson, AZ*
June 19 — Pappy and Harriet's — Pioneertown, CA*
June 21 — Belly Up Tavern — Solana Beach, CA*
June 23 — The Ford— Los Angeles, CA*
June 24 — Kate Wolf Music Festival — Laytonville, CA
July 16 — Lincoln Center — New York City, NY
July 21 — Northwest String Summit — North Plains, OR
July 27 — Ogden Nature Preserve — Ogden, UT
July 28 — Sawtooth Music Festival — Stanley, ID
July 30 — Canmore Folk Music Festival — Canmore, AB
Aug 6 — Petaluma Music Fest — Petaluma, CA
Sept 9 — Music on the Square — Jonesborough, TN
Sept 13 — Americanafest — Nashville, TN
Sept 30 — Sisters Folk Festival — Sisters, OR
*appearing with Ani DiFranco
** At this particular time we find ourselves in a financial pinch due to many factors. We want to keep AP going. It has been a passion project for over 13 years. PLEASE consider donating, we could really use the support. Thanks so much
We get by with a little help from our friends
Rainbow Girls, politico, folk rock, psych folk, hazy rock, sludge pop, dream pop, folk, folk indie, "Compassion to the Nth Degree", anti love song, protest song, sing along,
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