Vancouver indie-rockers Altona have been out exploring the wilderness. Jumping between expansive voids, tranquil scenes and sweat-filled performances, their video for ‘Favourite Books’ depicts both the natural and urban surroundings that welcomed them on their tour.
“When we left on our first tour in May of this year (a two-week jaunt across Western Canada), we already had in mind a basic vision for the type of music video we wanted to put together for ‘Favourite Books’,” guitarist Thom explains.
“Inspired by the simplicity of videos from bands we grew up watching, it really boiled down to an equation: live footage + tour footage = a vaguely nostalgic interpersonal insight into four Vancouver-based twenty-somethings on a road trip, camping and climbing and hitting stuff with other stuff.”
“We wanted the in-between times — times that nobody else would ever see otherwise — taking the spotlight. Being that this is our first music video, I think that between seeing us chop off all of Jesse’s hair in Cypress Hills and watching Mitch defile a lakeside statue in Penticton, everyone will get a pretty good introduction to the four of us and our music.”
‘Favourite Books’ is taken from the band’s self-titled EP, available now via Big Smoke. Those that sign up to the band’s mailing list will get an instant download of the EP, and a lyric book featuring photos from their time on the road (one of which can be seen at the top of this article).
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