Beauts have released “Drifters, All,” the video and third single from their upcoming album. Along with “The City Loves Me” and “Good Measure,” “Drifters, All” now hints at the trajectory the album will form: traversing from our relative position in the macrocosm of society, to the disconnecting effect society can have on us, to the loss of our immediate interpersonal relationships.
Directed by Sarah Greenwood, the video looks like what you’d get if Mumford & Sons acted out a film noir version of the 1986 Stephen King adaptation of Stand By Me. In a big way, “Drifters, All” is a story about comradery and, in a small way, it’s still about heading down to the river and poking some dead things with a stick – the two core tenets of boyhood.
As in the film, “Drifters, All” closes out with our protagonist alone and literally adrift. He’s awaken to discover his friends have gone their separate ways and has been left to fend for himself. Presumably one of them has been stabbed in the throat while trying to settle a dispute in a fast food restaurant, dying almost immediately. Or whatever the film noir equivalent would have been – perhaps taking a belly full of lead for offering his campfire beans to a pair of strangers.
“‘Drifters, All’ is about taking stock of the relationships you have with your friends. It’s easy to lose touch with these people as you age and get increasingly bogged down with lifestyle changes, and the lyrics grapple with the extent you should be maintaining your connections,” says Beauts vocalist Jeff Lawton.
As they say, you never have friends like the ones you do when you’re twelve.
Beauts debut full-length album is set to be released in 2020 on LHM Records.
Tour Dates:
10.24.19 – Halifax, NS @ Halifax Pop Explosion
11.08.19 – Truro, NS @ Nova Scotia Music Week
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