Stray Fossa and the youthful skip and jump of "Change The Film" (Official Video)

 

"We were turning into old / Versions of ourselves / If it were only up to me / I’d get used to no one else..."

The youthful skip and jump of "Change The Film" by Stray Fossa, feels like lifting the needle off that very special vinyl record and going back to a prior groove, trying to recapture what you felt at a precise time. Listening to the dreamy, post punk drawn guitar lines, the dreamy dancing musical shifts, the drum shuffles and airy pretty vocals feels cast in 90's or 2000's indie atmospheres. I am flashing on a band like Acid Ghost sans the shoegaze haze or maybe a bit like Castlebeat with a more bedroom pop / emo leans. Stray Fossa possesses the ability to take you back while holding your hand and running forward. This is to say that while a certain sonic nostalgia might be happening, the sounds feel totally cast in today and, besides, these guys still feel like total romantics through and through. 

LINER NOTES (bracketed):

[Buried in iPhone notes there must be more than 50 drafts of this song. Nothing was working until my bandmate/brother weighed in. It’s funny. An EP and two albums later, this is our first collaboration on lyrics - we usually squirrel away to write these. Funnier still: it is about trusting another person - their perspective and intuition, when it comes to changing your own. "Change The Film" is the first single of 2025 with more to come and features art by Mexican visual designer, Melissa Santamaria. The music video, filmed entirely on Super 8, captures a summer spent writing and recording new music together in the small mountaintop town we all grew up.]

Nice to hear these boys again. It's been a while. 

-Robb Donker Curtius

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Homemade indie out of bedrooms in Boston, Hamburg, and Munich.

Stray Fossa, indie rock, post punk, dream pop, shoegaze tones, indie pop tones, psychedelic, "Change The Film" (Official Video), Boston, Hamburg, Munich, nostalgic, 90's / 2000's leans,