Inner Wave New Single “Take 3” Is The More Of A Good Thing
Like a Krispy Kreme, Inner Wave has delivered a hot-n-ready sweet doughnut of a single called “Take 3”. The song is the cork popping off the bottle of their latest album Apoptosis which is due in September. This band has been playing together since middle school so the synchronization is right on point. This song strobes in dark like a traffic signal on a country road at 3 am.
“Take 3” represents an irresistibly fresh twist on the classic Inner Wave sound: slick wah-bass and a tight, bone-dry drum groove drive the track forward as dreamy vocals and ethereal synth oscillations swoon liltingly around them. Lyrically, the song leans into this state of reverie, as singer/guitarist Pablo Sotelo repeatedly echoes the phrase “wake up”. The intentionally ambiguous lyricism speaks to a sensibility that is as much about perception as projection.
The track’s video is the first directed by Sotelo himself and was shot on 16mm in a single, hypnotic long-take. Sotelo describes the visual as “symbolizing being stuck in a loop. A scratched record if you will – destined to repeat the past.” He prefers to keep the more precise meaning as playfully inscrutable as his lyricism but does reveal that the video’s rainbow wall is a reference to Alejandro Jodorowsky’s 1970s surrealist masterwork The Holy Mountain – an indication as to the breadth of inspiration that feeds into Inner Wave’s unique creative world.
Watch the official video below.
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