Typhoon has been getting its fair share of (deserved) publicity lately. With ranking #2 in Willamette Week‘s Best New Band of 2010 poll, winning our Band of the Month poll earlier this year and having its newest album (first in three years) Hunger and Thirst featured on our site for quite some time now, it’s safe to say that 2010 is Typhoon’s year.
"Starting Over (Bad Habits)," the first single off Hunger and Thirst, is just as soaring and full as the band itself. Kyle Morton’s shaky voice floats over dueling drums, twangy guitar riffs, bouts of horns and a chorale created by his bandmates.
The video, directed by Matthew Ross, depicts members of the band going about their actual day to day lives (horn player Tyler Ferrin works at Potato Champion and drummer Pieter Hilton runs a coffee cart called Gorilla Boy Coffee) and performing on stage, only to get sucked into a black hole caused by a Large Hadron Collider, which is a humongous atom-smashing machine that is believed to create a tiny black hole on Earth. Just check out the article the character in the beginning of the video is reading; it all makes sense!
Typhoon – Starting Over (bad habits) from Matthew Ross on Vimeo.
If you’ve yet to see the orchestral performance that is Typhoon’s live show, you’ve got a chance May 23. The thirteen+ piece plays at Holocene with Frog Eyes and Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band. Show starts at 8:30 pm. $8.
-Katrina Nattress