Toronto’s experimental Tropical Indie-Pop quartet Bravestation recently revealed their new video for ‘Signs of the Civilized’, co-directed by the band’s Derek Wilson alongside Wood & Wires Productions and in association with OTMZine and their fans, who funded the video through IndieGoGo.

The video depicts rituals taking place in the guise of a bourgeois party and parallels some of the song’s underlying themes including the spiritual quest for eternal youth. It can be seen here.

A week prior to this, the 2nd single from debut album ‘Giants & Dreamers’ (out July 10th) surfaced, entitled ‘Tides of the Summit’. My Old Kentucky Blog said of it ”The song’s vibe wraps itself around you like a warm blanket and gets better with each listen“ while BlogTO said “Percussion fizzes, while crystallized synths emerge with sun-bleached vocals, setting the tone for the album’s tropicaltextures.” The track can be heard here, while further album details can be found here.

The song-writing and recording process for the new album began over a year ago, with each member capturing ideas in isolation on their home computers; the resulting demos shared in a communal online space for collective sculpting. An independent one month tour of the United Kingdom in May/June 2011, following an invitation to play the main stage at North-East England’s largest music festival, Evolution (alongside Iggy and The Stooges, Two Door Cinema Club & The Kills), provided a great opportunity to road test the new material in front of a foreign audience; before returning to Toronto to finish the album in basements, bedrooms and Canterbury Studio. This constantly shifting discourse led to the revisiting and reshaping of ideas over time which contributed to the new material’s unique complexity – adventurous artistry, filled with visions of fantasy and a future that struggles between dystopia and utopia.