DC’s art-pop rockers Pree released a video today for "The Dog", their single from that great fancy-dancy record they put out this May, "Rima". The video features lead songbird, May Tobol, doing something many of us would never consider — following a strange clown into dark alleyways and empty playgrounds. Together they explore spinning colors, magical swings, and strange signs on the wall while the song’s narrator explains a tipsy-turvy world and a desire to escape into someone else’s shelter using a pity story : "time to climb/ into the cab and take a drive…/guess I needed another pair of eyes/ so I woke them when I made it to your door/ "I lost my dog"–you let me in/ although I know/ I’ve told you that before." This is a solid album with funk, psychedelic, and blues explorations, electronic decorations, displays of lyrical and vocal strength, warm choral flushes, and occasional distortion. Whenever they’ve been asked to describe themselves they’ve never left out the word colorful. Check out the video bellow, and if you haven’t given "Rima" a listen, get on it! Pree will be playing Brooklyn’s Northside Festival this week (congrats!) before returning home.
– Leora Mandel