‘In the Comedown’ by Divine Sweater | New Album, ‘Down Deep (A Nautical Apocalypse)’
Exclusive video premiere of ‘In the Comedown’ by Divine Sweater, taken from their latest album, ‘Down Deep (A Nautical Apocalypse),’ out via Better Company Records.
Earlier this spring, Boston-born and Brooklyn-based indie rock group Divine Sweater shared their newest LP, ‘Down Deep (A Nautical Apocalypse),’ via Better Company Records. Having introduced the project with a handful of stand-out singles — ‘All the Way Back,’ and ‘When the World is Ending,’ ‘In the Comedown,’ and ‘Waking up Alone / Julia’ — today, the band returns with a brand new music video for their single ‘In the Comedown,’ created by Gregory Fisher.
Speaking of their new music video, the band wrote: “This video is the visual encapsulation of the plot of our new science fiction concept album ‘Down Deep (A Nautical Apocalypse)’. Our close friend Gregory Fisher had the vision to outline the album’s plot in an animated video and ‘In the Comedown’ was the perfect song to accompany it. The video captures characters seeking shelter in abandoned submarines in a last-ditch effort to keep living while the apocalypse happens around them.”
‘Down Deep (A Nautical Apocalypse)’ is a series of vignettes from the end of the world. When Earth becomes unlivable, survivors seek shelter in abandoned submarines in a last-ditch attempt to keep living. In each track, characters reflect on their past-lives above the surface, detailing colorful memories of loss, joy, regret, and revelation. What begins as a story of intense hope for new beginnings slowly unravels into the ultimate, final disaster.
With the primary goal of writing a concept album in mind, Divine Sweater leaned into our love of science fiction, pulling inspiration from Bowie’s ‘Ziggy Stardust’ and The Flaming Lips’ ‘Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots’. However, they wanted the story to be grounded on Earth, focused on regular people, centered around the very real effects of climate change. Since the last few years on this planet have felt sufficiently bizarre, it would be fairly unsurprising if, tonight, Earth’s mantle split open and set society ablaze, forcing the surviving factions of humanity to move underwater and live out the remainder of their scattered lives in submarines. This album, like all good stories, is a murky blend of fiction and non-fiction, the fantastic and the ordinary.
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