“Almost Home” is The Big Sway’s first single from it’s forthcoming album We Made This For You (due out Summer 2022) and its frantic pace story finds a manifestation in the unusual music video. It depicts a dashboard hula dancer with a ukulele “dancing” in time with cross country road trips juxtaposed with images of monstrous driver and passenger in the car, time lapse traffic to exaggerate the chaotic nature of of traveling by car and interstate maps. Musically it’s a cousin to for much of the song to Zen Arcade-period Hüsker Dü but then in the last section of the song things slow down to a tranquil and echoing melody with Polaroids of the trip scrolling across the screen. It’s a lot like touring in a band. A lot of hurrying up and packing in a lot of shows and other action into a compressed period of time and not having a lot of time to think and unexpected periods of having time away from the focus of the tour which is getting to the venues and playing and loading out and finding a place to sleep before hitting the road again. It can be frustrating and fraught but there is a certain excitement to it even when you run into a less than idea situation at a venue, with a particular show with the outcome thereof and so on—it’s all a part of the adventure that seems over so soon. Then at the end that sensation of getting home after a long drive and how surreal and tranquil it feels and comforting and then taking the time out to reflect before returning to regular life seems to take on greater significance than merely coming home after a vacation. The Big Sway captures those emotions perfectly in this song and whether it’s sort of a love letter to the life of a band on tour it sure sounds like it and Damon Bishop’s music video a fantastic visual representation of that time as well. Watch “Almost Home” on YouTube and follow The Big Sway at the links below.
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