A new Deafheaven mini-documentary, ‘The Vast Sterling Purple‘, is scheduled to launch today, November 24th at 05:00pm PST, 08:00pm EST on Veeps. Filmed amid their touring of smaller markets this year with Harm’s Way and I Promised The World, that doc was shot by Sean Stout and Liam Stewart. Speaking of focusing on less played cities on that tour, vocalist George Clarke stated:
“It’s more about connecting with people who don’t normally get to see the band and going out to them and giving them as good a show as you would in those other places. Going to college towns and going to smaller suburbs, going to places where people do not go to as many shows, you never know what the reaction is going to be.”
Of course, the blackgaze band do have a bit of an ace up their sleeve in intentionally writing some of their music for their live shows, Clarke said of that:
“Early on, that was a real motivation because there isn’t a huge blueprint for what we do, a lot of what we create is done in a way that is sort of flying blind. We have enough records under our belt, and a lot of experimentation having been done over those albums, I think we arrived at a place that was very comfortable. I really thought that, for us to get our point across, I had to do the thing I’ve always done, which is reach in and assess my own life and the things that have made me me, to a much stronger degree.”
A trailer is available below:
