This autumn, Philadelphia dream pop outfit The Noisy are releasing The Secret Ingredient Is Even More Meat, a deluxe edition of their debut album The Secret Ingredient is More Meat, via Audio Antihero. Led by poet and songwriter Sara Mae, the project draws on literary and cinematic influences (especially Spaghetti Westerns and Body Horror) and ideas from the drag and queer community to create its vivid, larger-than-life sound, something highlighted by recent single ‘Twos‘. A song which not only leant into its own extravagance but offered what we called a “gloriously cinematic” video to further the vibe. “The music video literalizes the too much-ness of the story,” Mae explained, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Grey Gardens meets two dates to the prom.” The deluxe edition of the album promises to deliver this in spades, with new versions of a number of the songs presented alongside the original release.
Now The Noisy have returned with their latest single ‘Grenadine’, and Mae and co. push the boat out to bring its ideas to life. Again the track comes complete with a video directed and edited by Sam Cush, though the style swaps out the cinematic sheen of its predecessor for a more intimate, home movie aesthetic. Both Mae and Cush came of age hanging out in downtown Annapolis, the place they both found a community of likeminded artists and had their eyes opened to the possibilities of life, and the film looks to evoke the fondness for the city which developed as a result. “This music video is a love letter to Annapolis, this town of annual croquet matches between Johnnies and midshipmen, cobblestone mornings with streams of last night’s liquor smell, watching boats round Ego Alley,” Mae explains. “Before I left for college, my coworkers threw a house party for me, and I remember feeling so loved, then driving back over the bridge home afterwards and crying with the windows down because I didn’t want to leave. All the things my teenage self desperately needed—queer friendship, a better haircut, to get to come back to Annapolis—filming this music video affirmed I have now, and then some.”
The Secret Ingredient Is Even More Meat will be released on the 24th October via Audio Antihero and you can pre-order it now from The Noisy Bandcamp page.
Photo by Morgan Kelley