Drugdealer Posts Video For Easy To Forget Featuring Ariel Pink
Monday, 03 October 2016
Written by Laura Johnson
Photo: Joseph McMurray
Drugdealer, formerly of Run DMT and Salvia Plath, has posted a video for Easy To Forget.
The track, which features Ariel Pink, is taken from LA artist Michael Collins' debut album under the Drugdealer moniker, 'The End of Comedy', which came out in early September through Weird World.
In addition to Pink, the record also boasts guest vocals by Danny James and Weyes Blood, as well as musical contributions from members of Regal Degal, Holy Shit!, Mild High Club, Mr. Twin Sister and Mac DeMarco’s band.
Discussing Easy To Forget and it's accompanying visual, Collins said:
“I had this chord progression that I came up with right after I moved to Los Angeles 3 years ago, and then ended up writing it into a full song with Ariel. It was one the first things that felt seriously indebted to simply being on the west coast, and specifically recalled a sound from Los Angeles that I was always into. In LA, you often meet people who are actors on the street - uber drivers, waiters, valet, musicians, etc. We met Christiana Von Neissen (the actor in the video) this way - she was working at a bar. Immediately, she engrosses people in fabulous wandering storytelling, and sort of embodies a spirit of LA that I've come to love. I like videos that are more about setting a stage than coming up with tangential narrative to explain music; basically portraiture. We worked with her; a tour van, then we dressed and filmed two other people (Shags and Ben) who worked heavily on the album.”
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