Steering By Stars’ Creepy, Cosmic Collision

By Jenna Hawkins / August 9th, 2011 in Music / Adelaide / 283 views

Why does the bad guy always walk? No matter how fast Neve Campbell or Jennifer Love Hewitt ran, he always managed to catch up, even at a slow pace. Adelaide-based post-rock darlings Steering By Stars seem to have encountered the same problem in their video for Collision, the follow up to last year’s critically-acclaimed single Closer.

“Musically we wanted the song to sound overwhelming, with an almost unrelenting pressure with lyrics expressing the idea of being hounded by emotions until they ultimately consume you,” divulged lead vocalist Lachlan Wilson.

Directed by AFI winning filmmaker Nick Matthews and produced by Closer director Anny Duff, the video is as hauntingly beautiful as the music accompanying; iridescent of the band’s signature “symphonic melodies with undertones of aggressive post-rock sensibilities.”

With a monster akin to Donnie Darko’s Frank and a storyline following the eerie constructs of Michael Haneke’s Funny Games, the clip bestows a visual analogy of the exploration of the band and filmmakers’ concept, while maintaining a sense of unease and immediacy.

Duff explained, “The song Collision embodies that feeling of walking headlong into your own destruction with no way of escaping. We wanted to capture this in the visual response; sometimes life is just shit and you don’t always get closure.”