With their new album Gemini released in February, South American post-punks PILGRIMS have released their official music video for "Liminal Travel," the album's fourth single.
Stream the video, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGS3R8UCfck
Buy the new album, here: https://pilgrimsofyearning.bandcamp.com/album/gemini
Operating out of Boston, Massachusetts, PILGRIMS were initially known as Pilgrims of Yearning. The band was founded in 2018 by Chilean vocalist Juls Garat and Colombian musician Claudio Marcio, who met in Chile and emigrated together to the US.
Garat and Marcio put Pilgrims of Yearning on the map by way of a series of releases, most notably 2022's Hadal EP and its dreamy lead single, "La Mar." With rigid beats and stark basslines interlacing with ethereal guitars and synths, the songs paid homage to the early works of Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Cure, yet throbbed with their own heartbeat, unique to their makers.
New album Gemini is the first release under the new band name. Marcio gives this statement about the new, concise moniker: "With the name PILGRIMS, we reflect not only our spiritual journey, but our living experience as immigrants, our pilgrimage. The new album is touched by our experience as immigrants existing in this moment and place in history. We feel a lot of people can relate to the archetype of the traveler, the wanderer."
On "Liminal Travel," the album's fourth single, arpeggiated bass and a slamming electro beat lay the foundation. Garat holds court with her sirenic vocals, sung in both Spanish and English, and ethereal guitars and synths swirl. The song's dreamlike music video follows Garat and Marcio as they sightsee across New York City.
Garat gives this statement about the song's lyrics: "As an immigrant, you exist in a limbo, you don’t really belong to anywhere. As cliché as it sounds, it’s the primal experience of migration. It’s a journey where you question your essence, your values, your relationships, societal constructs, all what makes us human. In that journey, Claudio and I have each other as our mutual anchors in the uncertainty."
Photo by Rachael Shorr
On "Liminal Travel," the album's fourth single, arpeggiated bass and a slamming electro beat lay the foundation. Garat holds court with her sirenic vocals, sung in both Spanish and English, and ethereal guitars and synths swirl. The song's dreamlike music video follows Garat and Marcio as they sightsee across New York City.
Garat gives this statement about the song's lyrics: "As an immigrant, you exist in a limbo, you don’t really belong to anywhere. As cliché as it sounds, it’s the primal experience of migration. It’s a journey where you question your essence, your values, your relationships, societal constructs, all what makes us human. In that journey, Claudio and I have each other as our mutual anchors in the uncertainty."
Photo by Rachael Shorr
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