Just one week after the release of the Infinite House album, Ava Luna is at it again with the premier of their latest music video for “Steve Polyester.” The video, animated by Angela Stempel, takes a minimalistic animated dive into the whimsical life of a person searching for a man that goes by the name of Steve Polyester.
The track is the third song off of the band’s new album and blends spoken word lyricism with light “doo doo doos” as whimsical as the video itself.
The day of Infinite House’s release, the band posted an in-depth explanation on the concept behind the album via their Facebook page:
“We each occupy an infinite house. Or maybe two: that one that perceives, and that other one that is perceived.
“I sat with my bandmates in a house like this in Mississippi, and we looked at each other with wide eyes. But it might as well have been a friend’s room, or a lover’s room, where I sat. Or it might be the case that we sat across the table from each other at a 24-hour diner.
“During such moments, in the comfort of a loving presence, you might let yourself become vulnerable. Happy, even. I’ve spoken to friends lately about how we reconcile our individual choices, our images of ourselves, with the expectations of concrete, external systems. Whom we are expected or allowed to love, how we’re expected or allowed to behave, where we are expected or allowed to feel comfortable in our skins.
“My optimism comes from the fact that these systems are finite. Powerful, but finite. We sit across the table, or in our lover’s room, or in that empty house in the woods of Mississippi — that infinite house, that thing that is perceived, that thing that IS pure perception — and we become nothing, and everything, we become each other.”
Don’t miss Ava Luna this Saturday at O’Brien’s alongside Bent Shapes, Palehound and Radical Dads.