New York – Indie folk-rock band Roadkill Ghost Choir have released a video for their song “A Blow To The Head,” from their recent album, In Tongues, just in time for Halloween.
About the video, lead singer Andy Shepard said: “We found a box of old VHS tapes at this thrift shop in Deland, Florida. One was this old Italian B-horror movie that must have been recorded off of late-night television. The tape was so messed up we couldn’t really tell what was happening so we just imagined it. Cults, people in cages, stabbing, running. It doesn’t make any sense but it scared the hell out of everyone. We left it on a loop in the studio and it became the inspiration for ‘A Blow to the Head’. We took some of the VHS footage and messed with it to make the video.”
The band have also announced additional tour dates for the last few months of 2014, including dates added in December on the west coast. For the band’s full itinerary, please see below.
The band are touring in support of In Tongues, their debut, released in August. Relix hailed the album, saying “In Tongues is a modern take on Americana flush with pedal steel guitar, spacey keys, churning percussion and Andrew Shepard’s vocals…his voice [is] an ethereal gust of wind blowing through these stormy songs.”
Emerging from the desolate heart of Central Florida, Roadkill Ghost Choir make unsettling, powerful American rock—Tom Petty by way of Radiohead and Cormac McCarthy. Set against Kiffy Myer’s ghostly pedal steel, singer and main songwriter Shepard triumphantly conjures an allegorical American landscape of drifters, specters and violent saints. Andrew’s brothers Maxx (drums) and Zach (bass) Shepard round out the rhythm section, and Stephen Garza handles lead guitar.
The band released their debut EP ‘Quiet Light’ in 2013 and appeared that year at New York’s Governor’s Ball, Austin City Limits and Shaky Knees in Atlanta. In January 2014, the band performed “Beggar’s Guild” on the David Letterman Show.
