PREMIERE: Vanderocker Offers Mind-Warping Experience With Latest Video ‘Creature of Habit’

PREMIERE: Vanderocker Offers Mind-Warping Experience With Latest Video ‘Creature of Habit’

Gearing up to release her new mind-melting video is Vanderocker, the Los Angeles-based avant-everything indie guru. Creature of Habit is culled from her latest album, Point Defiance, one which builds upon the success of her debut, Jupiter’s Kiss. Continuing to couple up such unlikely bedfellows as classical and indie rock, her latest long-player adds even more psychedelic influences, as well as a healthy dose of Desert Rock, with the tracks written and tracked in Joshua Tree.

‘Creature of Habit’ was directed by photographer, costume-designer and filmmaker, Mimi Haddon. To be approached with caution by those among you of gentle constitutions, Creature of Habit is more than a fever dream – it’s an anxiety dream in which the real terror is that we’re looking at ourselves as a species. The images are so stunningly bizarre, cartoonish, absurd and ‘out there’ that once you start watching, it’s impossible to drag yourself away. A quasi-commentary on people taking themselves way too seriously whilst still displaying all the usual human failings, prepare to have your retinas given an Olympic standard workout!

Mimi: “The song was the perfect inspiration for the costumes I’ve been creating. I’ve been exploring the idea of ‘creature’ for a few years and was immediately inside Adrienné’s song the second I heard it. The shooting and editing style are a homage to early MTV, which was what I was raised on. I also love the work of Busby Berkeley and had fun working some of his inspiration into the final edit”.

Adrienne: “I see it as an observation of all the facets of people as a whole (who are often very ridiculous) as well as challenging people not to take things too seriously. There is a bit of Sunset Boulevard bravado in it as well (with a punk spin) – the idea of how humans tend to take themselves so damn seriously- and when we step back and gain perspective, we realize what silly creatures we are when we let our personalities takeover”.

Check out the exclusive XS Noize video premiere of ‘Creature of Habit’ – BELOW:

Vanderocker is an indie music project led by Adrienne Vanderocker, who comes from a Dutch-American family of classical musicians in Austin, TX. Being the writer for the project, much of Vanderocker’s classical influence can be heard throughout the VDR’s catalogue. VDR’s early music was an experimental variation of retro rock blended with electronica.

Following her debut album, Jupiter’s Kiss, which featured some of music’s most celebrated session musicians – Tim Pierce (Bruce Springsteen; Patti Smith; Alice Cooper), Chris Chaney (Jane’s Addiction; Joe Cocker; Slash), Jamie Muhoberac (Chris Cornell; Fleetwood Mac; Rolling Stones), Matt Chamberlain (Pearl Jam; Tori Amos; David Bowie) VDR broadened its sound with a variety of singles ranging from devotional music, to roadhouse blues, trip hop, avant-garde and indie pop. Vanderocker’s second LP experiments with psychedelic desert rock and sweeping mellow flavours and was largely written and recorded in Joshua Tree. A slew of new music videos are being released in 2019 and two diverse new EPs are expected to release around the end of 2019, playing with more of electronic and alternative acoustic sounds.

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Mark Millar is the founder of XS Noize and looks after the daily running of the website as well as hosting interviews for the weekly XS Noize Podcast. Mark's favourite album is Achtung Baby by U2.

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