Topanga Canyon psych group, VUM, have released the video for “I Will Return,” off their latest album, ‘Psychotropic Jukebox.’ The song is another great droning tune that fits nicely into their catalog of “lost inside the desert of your own mind” explorations. The video, directed by Kyle Blair-Henderson, employs seamless camera tricks without ever feeling heavy-handed. As Jennifer Pearl stares ever-piercingly into your psyche, the kaleidoscopic layering takes you deeper into the landscape of the song. As each face on the screen begins to glitter, the drone-y instrumentation escalates entering that seance-like space VUM creates so well. Aptly enveloping you in their haze of peyote-induced mystery, the video seems to exist in the band’s own space vacuum. Once you get close enough to their magnetic pull, you won’t be coming back. ‘Psychotropic Jukebox’ is available now digitally, and on vinyl in November on Secret Lodge Recordings. VUM have just announced their Echo Residency, playing every Monday in December. – Jacqueline Caruso
