Let Acid Dad Fry Your Frontal Lobe with Video for New Track “Living With a Creature”
The track is the band's first new music since the release of their debut LP in March
Photo by Devon Bristol Shaw Music News Acid Dad
Acid Dad, the NYC psych-punk group that made Paste’s list of Big Apple-based bands to know in 2018, have shared the video for “Living With a Creature,” their first new song since the release of their debut self-titled album in March. The track will drop on streaming and physical platforms on Oct. 26 through Greenway.
If you’re in need of a real, honest, salt-of-the-earth thrasher to round out your art-punk Halloween playlist, look no further than the sludgy psychedelia of “Living With a Creature.” It thumps, it jumps and it’ll keep you bumping all through the night with singer Vaughn Hunt’s exhortations of being “stuck in the walls,” riding on a wave of ferocious fuzz in the vein of Ty Segall or Oh Sees.
It might be a good idea to rig up a projector and throw on the music video for your party guests, too, while you’re at it. Directed by Sztuka Naiwna, the video for “Living With a Creature” melds Max Headroom with childhood fever-dream imagery and ends up a colorful two-minute trip down the mind-rotting rabbit hole, which is just about the best mood-setter for the devil’s night you’re gonna find. Try it out. See what happens.
Watch the “Living With a Creature” video and Acid Dad’s Paste Studio session below. The band will be touring for the remainder of the year—find a full list of dates further down.
Acid Dad Tour Dates:
October
22 – Washington, D.C. @ Songbyrd
23 – Philadelphia, Pa. @ PhilaMOCA
24 – Seaside Heights, N.J. @ Hemingway’s Seaside Heights
25 – New York, N.Y. @ (le) poisson rouge
26 – Trenton, N.J. @ Mill Hill Basement
30 – Montreal, Que. @ l’Escogriffe Bar Spectacle
31 – St Catharines, Ont. @ Warehouse
November
01 – Toronto, Ont. @ Adelaide Hall
02 – Chicago, lll. @ The Empty Bottle
03 – Iowa City, Iowa @ Iowa City Yacht Club
04 – Minneapolis, Minn. @ First Avenue & 7th St Entry
06 – Denver, Colo. @ Lost Lake
07 – Salt Lake City, Utah @ Kilby Court
08 – Boise, Idaho @ The Olympic Venue
10 – Vancouver, B.C. @ Fox Cabaret
11 – Seattle, Wash. @ Barboza
12 – Portland, Ore. @ Doug Fir Lounge
13 – San Francisco, Calif. @ Bottom of the Hill
14 – Los Angeles, Calif. @ El Cid
15 – Tucson, Ariz. @ Owl Club
17 – Dallas, Texas @ Regal Room
18 – Austin, Texas @ Mohawk
19 – Houston, Texas @ Satellite Bar
20 – New Orleans, La. @ Gasa Gasa
January
26 – Brighton, U.K. @ The Hope and Ruin
27 – Bristol, U.K. @ The Old England
28 – Manchester, U.K. @ Gullivers
29 – Newcastle, U.K. @ Cluny2
30 – Glasgow, U.K. @ Nice N Sleazy
31 – Liverpool, U.K. @ Shipping Forecast
February
01 – London, U.K. @ The Shacklewell Arms