The Picture Tour is releasing its new album Blood. Machine. Gasoline. in late October 2025. Fronted by guitarist Billy Armijo The Picture Tour’s gritty psychedelia fuses dark melodies with an urgency in the rhythms that propel the songs through those moments in your mind when a melancholic mood can cause your heart to drift into lost places. The lead single from the album “Nobody Cruises Anymore” is a prime example of the way in which the group’s dynamic as a trio pushes is completely unified in driving the song beginning to end with a percussive forcefulness. Fans of A Place To Bury Strangers will appreciate how the atmospheric guitar breaks ever so slightly into controlled fuzz harnessed to maximum effect while the almost motorik rhythms pulse with in a headlong pace.
The accompanying music video shows the band playing just out of frame interspersed with scenes from night driving in the city. As the song’s title suggests there was a time in Denver and many other cities when night driving had a certain mystique and attraction to the imagination of a sense of adventure and getting out into unexplored stretches of urban landscapes and the hinterlands. It also represented a certain sense of freedom that existed before private equity firms and other corporations bought up and out all the urban decay, lower rent housing and small businesses and turned them into the blight that robs cities of much of their character and appeal. It’s a song that feels like it’s headed straight into the future but indulging a nostalgia and sense of romanticism for something lost that was, in a word, cool and which helped to shape your identity and sense of place. The video and the song together resonate with the aesthetic of a Nicolas Winding Refn film and that director’s gift for creating modern noir. The video was edited and directed by John Bishop with cinematography by Sara Armijo and Keturah Bishop who also did the color for the video which was produced by Josh and Keturah Bishop.
Watch the video for “Nobody Cruises Anymore” on YouTube and follow The Picture Tour at the links below. The band performs at Mutiny Information Cafe with Owosso on Saturday, September 13, 2025 at 3pm with an album release show for Blood. Machine. Gasoline. TBA.
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