Friendmaker - Weird (Official Music Video)

Friendmaker - Weird (Official Music Video)
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CREDITS;

Video Credits:

Produced by David Marron

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Song Credits:

Friendmaker is David Marron (Vocals, Guitar etc.) Maolíosa McMahon (vocals & keys), Paul Finn (guitar & Vocals), Paul Markey (Bass) & Fintan Marron (drums)

Music and Lyrics written by David Marron

Written, Recorded and produced by David Marron in
Samhlaíocht Studio, Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan.

Additional recording, production and mixing by Darren Clarke

Mastering by Peter Montgomery

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LYRICS:

There’s a dream that I re-enter
Where I’ve killed,
I don’t know who or how or why
but I carry the guilt,

And every night for months I went there
Without will
…. And every night…… I feel them closing in

And I’m not sure if I should surrender
Christ I don’t know if I was even asleep

And I feel weird when I wake up … when I wake up
I feel weird when I wake up … when I wake up

And in these dreams I can’t remember If I even was me,
Or some bizarre assemblage of other things,
Heard them use the word “dismembered”, nah it couldn’t be me,
then why do I feel nervous when they’re searching the mill?

It always ends before there’s answers,
With the cops outside pointing weapons at me,

And I feel weird when I wake up … when I wake up
And I feel weird when I wake up … when I wake up

And I feel weird when I wake up … when I wake up
And I feel weird when I wake up … when I wake up
And I feel weird when I wake up … when I wake up

About the Song

‘Weird’ is the second single from Friendmaker’s forthcoming debut album. Musically ‘Weird’ offers a deliberately repetitive ear worm that subtly changes on each refrain reflecting the abstractions of dreamlike cycles. Audio samples of Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung’s dream theory bookend three minutes of rhythmic indie rock with hooky melodies and pounding choruses.

Lyrically the song searches for meaning in a recurring dream, examining the semi-consciousness experienced between waking and sleeping, specifically the changeover between abstraction and lucidity and asks why the events of a dream often stay with us beyond slumber, dictating our conscious mood as if rooted in reality? Do we pay enough attention to the foreshadowing presented in our recurring dreams? And can we afford to ignore a subconscious that consistently throws up a repeated story line?

About the Video:

The music video for weird takes its cues from the artwork of the De Stijl movement. Like the works of Mondrian and Van Doesburg the video attempts to distil it’s subject matter to the very simplest form. The minimalistic primary colours of DeStijl are gone. Refined further to a monochromatic palette that basks in its own absurdity.

A fragmented surrealism unfolds to the song’s rhythmic patterns attempting to smother the viewer in what could and should be a straight forward performance video. A suffocating truncation of half shots and obscured movements creates an perceptual discomfort. “I wanted the viewer to feel uneasy, almost frustrated by not seeing the whole picture.” says the video’s creator David Marron, “As close as I could get to creating that confused dream like experience.”

Artist: Friendmaker
Song Title: Weird
Release Date: Thursday 21st of April 2022
Label: Self Released on ‘House of Strange Vinyl’

This release will also contain a previously unreleased b-side called ‘Leaky Mick and Vinny P the Talker’

[meje]

Why isn't this constantly played on every radio station ever?

[carbenali]

Stumbled across this on Instagram, fucking wow, im lost for words, I'll be telling people I heard this at a handful of plays when it crosses the 1 billion mark. Special talent, very best of luck, the future is going to be massive.

[honeybeardband]

Really like this! Another great tune guys! Epic stuff!!!

[megoodself]

Pure class Lads. That chorus really hits. Love it !!

[jotaserna]

Grandiosos! Un abrazo queridos amigos!

[catL]

What's with the freemasons symbology?? Yes weird is the right Part of the sicko club