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Slovenian Quintet Your Gay Thoughts Share Luxuriatingly Calm Video for "Among The Lull"

Check out the serene clip for the deep house single off their forthcoming LP for Vancouver's King Deluxe records.

Sometimes club music is most effective when it transports you squarely into the here and now, actually keeping your brain contained in the room you're in. That seems to be the kind of moment Slovenian quintet Your Gay Thoughts meditated on when they wrote "Among The Lull," a single released in advance of The Watercolors LP, out sometime next year on Vancouver's King Deluxe records.

The video depicts some young people just hanging out, living life, and going clubbing—something simple and straightforward to match the serene melancholy of the deep house soundtracking it. But according to director Kukla, there's also some subtle gender politicking happening under the surface. "I have been thinking a lot about gender identity lately, especially about the role of the woman nowadays," she told us over email. "Something in this beautiful song moved me and I wanted to play with gender roles and behavior codes—see what comes up if we mix it all up, and through that revalue the way we see ourselves and others."

We also asked Your Gay Thoughts' bassist and vocalist Gregij Felis Catus about the band's arguably problematic name. How did they come up with it? "One day I woke up with the name written on my forehead, and I couldn't resist," he replied. "My guess is that the name is probably only offensive to those who have gay thoughts but are afraid to confront them." While we don't agree with Gregij that anyone who finds this obviously charged name offensive is "probably" a closeted homosexual, and think they should probably take on more accountability with regard to the name, we will say that more bands should be named after the Sharpie-memorialized memories of drunken mornings-after.

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