Two weeks after releasing their debut single “Revelation,” former Every Time I Die vocalist Keith Buckley‘s new band Many Eyes have released the video for the song. Keith has spoke about the influence of ’90s grunge on this project, and the video pays homage to the video for Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” with a sepia-toned clip that finds Many Eyes playing on the floor to a rowdy crowd.
“As with any and all Revelations…we appeared out of nowhere in our truest, most timeless form,” Buckley says via press release. “This video doesn’t just capture who we are, it conveys who we have always been. Within the swirling energy is an immovable expression of our love for music and the connections created by that love. This is us at our source and center. A truth to which we as a band will always return.”
Talking to BrooklynVegan about the grunge influence on Many Eyes, Buckley said, “We took this energy from an era that has vanished–I mean the kind of overall theme to the ’90s was rebellion and anti-establishment and anti-institution, and they rebelled so well that they either died or are no longer culturally relevant… I want to make sure that maybe we can sound a rallying cry for more people like us, who grew up on the same music and who miss that that sense of… the spirituality about it, you know?”
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About the song “Revelation,” he added, “This was about me wrestling with the anger that I had, but not towards anyone specifically; it was about the idea of alcoholism and what it had done to my life and that it put all my relationships in jeopardy, and that eventually it just came to identify my relationships entirely. So I kind of anthropomorphized the vice of alcoholism, and then obviously because I was reading the Bible a lot, I used a metaphor of just seeing it as the devil itself, which, the more I came to think about it, the more it actually felt true.”
Watch below and catch Many Eyes on tour in early 2024 with Thursday (playing War All The Time) and Rival Schools. Tickets here.
Thursday, Rival Schools, and Many Eyes tour dates
01/25 – Buffalo, NY @ Town Ballroom
01/26 – Detroit, MI @ The Majestic
01/27 – Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall
01/28 – McKees Rocks, PA @ Roxian Theatre
01/30 – Chicago, IL @ Concord Music Hall
01/31 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
02/01 – Omaha, NE @ Slowdown
02/02 – Denver, CO @ Summit Music Hall
02/03 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot
02/05 – Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile
02/06 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
02/08 – Sacramento, CA @ Ace of Spades
02/09 – San Francisco, CA @ August Hall
02/10 – Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory
02/11 – Mesa, AZ @ The Nile Theater
02/13 – Austin, TX @ The Mohawk (Outside)
02/15 – Jacksonville, FL @ Jack Rabbits
02/16 – Fort Lauderdale, FL @ Revolution Live
02/17 – Orlando, FL @ The Beacham
02/18 – Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
02/20 – Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre of Living Arts
02/21 – Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
02/22 – Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Soundstage
02/23 – Virginia Beach, VA @ Elevation 27
02/24 – New York, NY @ Irving Plaza
