Quilt Channels Wes Anderson in New Video

The Boston psych-pop band has 'strange things brewing' on 'Roller.' —Michael Marotta

This post originally appeared on Vanyaland.


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Quilt / Still from “Roller” video

The fine people of Quilt are having the best week ever. Yesterday, they unexpectedly popped up on our television screens as audience members of a taping of The Price Is Right, and while they weren’t actually called to compete for the Showcase Showdown (cue the losing horn), the Boston psych-pop band continue to be on a roll with today’s release of their new video for “Roller.”

The clip, directed by Adi Putra, shot in Venice, California, and featuring Quilt as a sort of Wes Anderson–themed nuclear family, arrives a fortnight and a day before the band releases Plaza, their third album and latest for Mexican Summer Records. The release party goes down that same night, February 26, at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

Speaking about the “Roller” video, singer/guitarist Anna Fox Rochinski says, tells Noisey: “I spent the holiday season developing a concept with Adi Putra about a strange, semi-dysfunctional family. The idea originally stemmed from our conversations about our favorite films that demonstrate a family structure that is interrupted by an outside presence and/or has some extremely strange things brewing underneath an otherwise normal surface. I play a disillusioned daughter in a traditionally structured nuclear family, who maintains a relationship with these mysterious apparitions as an escape from her family and a way to feel like she belongs somewhere. It is never made quite clear if they are a figment of her imagination or not, but either way they sure have some cool dance moves.”

Rochinski also praised Putra’s “aesthetic and his appreciation for all things surreal, strange and yet deeply emotional,” and you can sense all of that in the video below. As far as the track, well, it’s already one of our favorite songs of 2016, and we’re especially digging the Liz Phair vibes we’re getting from Rochinski’s vocals.

Watch “Roller” below, and scan Quilt’s full list of upcoming tour dates to ensure you catch one of Boston’s best bands in your part of the world.