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Sorority Noise Release Music Video For “No Halo” via NPR

May 2, 2017

Brett Sweeney

 Sorority Noise Release Music Video For “No Halo” via NPR

Sorority Noise On Tour Now, Including Dates With Sinai Vessel, Matt Kerekes (of Citizen), Forth Wanderers,
The Obsessives and Shannen Moser

You’re Not As _____ As You Think Out Now
on Triple Crown Records

Sorority Noise is now premiering their new music video for “No Halo” via NPR Music. The video was directed by Kyle Thrash, and focuses in on the painful moments of loss and grief. A quote from Thrash on the video’s message can be found below the link. “No Halo” comes off Sorority Noise’s new album You’re Not As _____ As You Think, out now on Triple Crown Records. The album is now available for purchase physically at sororitynoise.com . Sorority Noise is also currently on tour, including dates with Sinai Vessel, Walter Etc. The Obsessives and Shannen Moser. A full list of dates can be found below.
Watch Sorority Noise’s video for “No Halo” now via NPR.
“The video is about grief and how we deal and don’t deal with it. Being so close with Cam I was able to have conversations about how we’ve each dealt with loss and explored different areas of the idea from there.” – Kyle Thrash (director).

Tour Dates:
05/01 – Phoenix, AZ – The Rebel Lounge^
05/02 – San Diego, CA – Che Cafe^
05/03 – Los Angeles, CA – The Hi Hat^
05/04 – San Francisco, CA – Bottom Of The Hill^
05/06 – Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court@
05/07 – Denver, CO – Marquis Theater%
05/09 – Lawrence, KS – Jackpot Music Hall%
05/10 – St. Louis, MO – Firebird%
05/11 – Chicago, IL – Bottom Lounge%
05/12 – Lakewood, OH – Mahall’s%
05/13 – Saginaw, MI – Patchwork Music Festival
05/14 – Columbus, OH – Double Happiness%
05/22 – Hamburg, Germany – Hafenklang
05/23 – Cologne, Germany – Tsunami Club
05/24 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Winston
05/25 – Antwerp, Belgium – Kavka
05/27 – Birmingham, UK – Slam Dunk Fest
05/28 – Leeds, UK – Slam Dunk Fest
05/29 – Hertfordshire, UK – Slam Dunk Fest
06/13 – Washington, DC – Rock & Roll Hotel#
06/14 – Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer#
06/15 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg#
06/16 – Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair#
06/17 – Hamden, CT – The Ballroom at The Outer Space#^ = w/ The Obsessives, Walter Etc.
@ = w/ The Obsessives
% = w/ The Obsessives, Mat Kerekes (of Citizen)
# = w/ The Obsessives, Forth Wanderers, Shannen Moser

1. No Halo
2. A Portrait Of
3. First Letter From St. Sean
4. A Better Sun
5. Disappeared
6. Car
7. Where Are You?
8. Second Letter From St. Julien
9. Leave The Fan On
10. New Room

Bio:
Sorority Noise write important songs. They go to uncomfortable places, unafraid to let the darkness in – but they’re also not shy at kicking back until the sorrow subsides. They’re songs of confusion, anger, life, death, mental health and, most importantly, hope. They’re what it means to be human.That vulnerability has been Sorority Noise’s hallmark since they formed in 2013, but it’s never been as precise as it is on You’re Not As _____ As You Think, their third album, set for release March 17th via Triple Crown Records. The album follows the Connecticut-based quartet’s It Kindly Stopped For Me 7” (2016), critically acclaimed Joy, Departed (2015) and debut Forgettable (2014) and is the most collaborative, fully realized version of Sorority Noise to date.

Sorority Noise recorded You’re Not As _____ As You Think with producer Mike Sapone (Brand New, Taking Back Sunday) over the span of 10 days – three times longer than it took to track Joy, Departed – and this increased time allowed the band to hone the songwriting and visceral performances that have launched them onto tours with Modern Baseball, Citizen, Turnover and The Menzingers and into outlets like Pitchfork, Consequence of Sound, The Fader, Spin, AV Club and Stereogum.

Singer/guitarist Cameron Boucher, who prefers not to edit or overthink his lyrics, empties both his pen and soul on songs like “No Halo,” “Disappeared” and “A Portrait Of,” stark vignettes that find him coming to terms with the death of close friends. He’s had days, weeks and months to confront these and other emotions, and when it came time to write about them, the words spilled out.

So what you’re getting is an emotional bulldozer – an unfiltered, inward look at the last year of the band’s life that’s filled with intimate, visceral details yet remains universally relatable. But even amidst heavy subject matter, Sorority Noise want to give you a sense of resilience. “No matter what I feel, it’s going to be OK,” Boucher says. “Things are going to be tough, but it’s going to be fine in the end – and you have to keep going because you just have to. This is how it’s going to be. You’ve just got to do it.”

It’s in this way that the album’s title comes into view, and it only takes inserting a few adjectives – sad, happy, rich, poor – to realize life is all about perspective. Hardships are inevitable, but so is hope. Rather than living in the shadows, Sorority Noise have learned the only way to move past the struggle is by never stopping moving forward into the sun.

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