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The second single from Oxbow's new album, Love's Holiday: Directed by Kiran Acharya () Directed by Northern Irish filmmaker Kiran Acharya, the video for “Icy White & Crystalline“ shows Oxbow as you've never seen them before, performing in San Francisco on the disused set of The Snow Queen. The video not only captures the band's ferocious live energy, but literally shows them in a new light. “Icy White & Crystalline is about as spontaneous as filmmaking can be,“ says Acharya. “We had many ideas on the go, including an abstract graphic approach inspired by the work of Josef Albers. But Eugene found the set of The Snow Queen with 24 hours to go and said “this is the place“. We loaded in, set up as live, strapped an icicle to the microphone and went for it.“ The result speak's to Oxbow's formidable reputation as performers, showcasing one of the most direct songs on Love's Holiday. Neither the band nor director knew how things would turn out, joking that they ended up with something like 'Shiny Happy People, directed by David Lynch'. About the making of the video Eugene S. Robinson comments, “Funny going all the way to a UK-based filmmaker/journo from Belfast in Kiran Acharya for directing the video for Icy White & Crystalline but if you take the same elements and expect something different, you're on the road to madness. Which is precisely why we used wildly disparate elements to visualize our first “live“ music video for Love's Holiday. Sixteen takes all the way through...'you don't know burn“ is the opening lyric. For probably the best of all reasons here: this video almost killed us to make.“ Niko Wenner continues, “Icy White & Crystalline” began as a blown-out ferocious rehearsal phone-recording we've aimed to match in high fidelity, the bridge another improv, the two joined make a classic Oxbow banger we’ll doubtless rock live for as long as we plug-in. Enjoy!“ Check out the first single “1000 Hours (ft. Roger Joseph Manning Jr.)“ at OXBOW LIVE DATES SEPTEMBER 2023 US October 20 Philadelphia, PA PhilaMOCA October 21 Portland, ME SPACE October 22 Brooklyn, NY Elsewhere November 9 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall November 10 Los Angeles, CA Regent Theatre November 11 Scottsdale, AZ Pub Rock UK/EU Friday, September 01, 2023 UK Glasgow Broadcast Saturday, September 02, 2023 UK Birmingham Supersonic festival Sunday, September 03, 2023 UK Leeds Brudenell Social Club Monday, September 04, 2023 UK Bristol Exchange Tuesday, September 05, 2023 UK London Studio 9294 Wednesday, September 06, 2023 BE Kortrijk Wilde Westen Thursday, September 07, 2023 BE Brussels Botanique Friday, September 08, 2023 NL Nijmegen Merleyn Saturday, September 09, 2023 LUX Tetange Human's World festival (free entry) Sunday, September 10, 2023 DE Bochum Die Trompete Monday, 11 September 2023 AT Vienna Volkstheatre Rote Bar Tuesday, 12 September 2023 PL Wroclaw Liverpool Wednesday, 13 September 2023 PL Warsaw Hydrozagadka Thursday, 14 September 2023 DE Berlin Roadrunners Paradise Friday, 15 September 2023 DE Hamburg Hafenklang Saturday, 16 September 2023 DK Aalborg Lasher fest Love’s Holiday cover by Aaron Turner Love’s Holiday track listing: 1. Dead Ahead 2. Icy White & Crystalline 3. Lovely Murk 4. 1000 Hours 5. All Gone 6. The Night The Room Started Burning 7. “ “ 8. Million Dollar Weekend 9. The Second Talk 10. Gunwale Love’s Holiday pre-orders, including limited-edition indie exclusive red and marbled grey vinyl variants, as well as standard vinyl, CD and digital, are available now: OXBOW is Dan Adams (electrical/acoustic bass), Greg Davis (drums/percussion), Eugene S. Robinson (vocals), and Niko Wenner (guitars/pianos). The San Francisco-born band have released seven studio albums since their inception in 1988, with Pitchfork saying the foursome have released “some of the most eccentric heavy music albums ever.”
