Deli CD of the Month: Home Video
Comprising Brooklyn-based music savants Collin Ruffino and David Gross, Home Video is so much more than your average electronic-rock collab. Despite the fact that they’ve been breaking it down for over five years, it took the second season of the hit show Gossip Girl to unite my ears with their utter talent. Episode 20 featured “I Can Make You Feel It,” a pulsating number characterized by solid drumbeats, killer keyboard, tambourine accents, haunting harmonies and an eerie electro current. Peep the frenetic, white on black, mixed medium music video to help wrap your head around this stellar song.
Beyond their primetime appearance, in January Home Video released an EP, It Will Be OK, in advance of their second full-length, due to drop by the end of ’09. Visit their official site to download the EP for free. Bask in Home Video’s intoxicating tunes, which range in personality from somber and minimalist to hopeful and sublime. Capable of transforming mood with their downright depressing but unequivocally beautiful flourish of sick synth and ambient tones, listeners will either be elevated to a state of ecstasy and dance or driven to despair.
They recently played a gig at Mercury Lounge and, rumor has it, the boys will be back in action on May 7th performing with Max Tundra at the former Supreme Trading spot in Williamsburg. Junior Boys and Franz Ferdinand are also slated to deejay. Fingers crossed this circulating buzz isn’t just fluff.
Sure to give you nightmares and dominate your dreams, Home Video may not be America’s funniest, but they are among New York’s finest. - Nell Alk
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