Rubber Oh, the project created by Sam Grant of Pigs x 7, has released their latest single and music video, “Hyperdrive Fantasy.” The single is taken from their upcoming debut album Strange Craft, out June 3 via Rocket Recordings. Check out the video for “Hyperdrive Fantasy” now!
Sam Grant explains, “Hyperdrive Fantasy is a song about a daydreamer. Life has them bound to their sofa, but their imagination takes them on cosmic journeys, across solar systems and galaxies, and to the farthest reaches away from their existential self.” He continues, “The video is a play on that imagination, with overtly unreal models and scenery, centered around the rocket that journeys into the depths of space. It’s in no hurry, has no destination, but just floats through the cosmos in an imagined, blissful escapism.”
Describing the complexity of making such a technical video, he says, “We made the video using 10 meters of black paper, painted it, wrapped it around two poster tubes, and stuck on a motor to turn it like a treadmill. Then, using our Blue Peter skills we modeled our toilet roll tubes and went into space…”
Strange Craft is a deliriously tuneful sci-fi tinged psych-pop. Mapping out a retro-futuristic trajectory that stretches from the wide-eyed travails of the late-’60s through to the hard-edged mind expansions of the 21st century, this collection of warped interstellar voyages is intent on taking the scenic route across the cosmic continuum.
While Grant performed the majority of the music, help from friends and acquaintances was enlisted, such as Pigs’ Chris Morley on drums as well as Matt Baty (Pigs x7) and Beth Jeans Houghton (Du Blonde) counting amongst the backing vocalists, all amidst a wash of celestial ambience and curlicues of analogue synth.
Pre-order Strange Craft here!
Rubber Oh live dates:
June 2 – Manchester, YES
June 3 – London, The Lexington
June 4 – Newcastle, The Cluny 2
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