Taste Test: The Bergamot honor the great splendor of ‘Mayflies’
The funky dream-pop duo stress the urgency of nature’s dying state on a new song and video.
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The reality is simple: the natural world is dying. The blood of its peoples and every creature that crawls upon the earth, soars in the skies or swims in the oceans is on our hands. We can do what we will with that. Dream-pop duo The Bergamot flutter across a smog-buried skyline with a song called “Mayflies,” a self-prescribed anthem for, you guessed it, the mayflies whose days are severely numbered. The visual, glossy with director Robert Campbell’s handiwork, is alarmingly jubilant, but that’s the point, isn’t it? The palette is cleansed with neons of orange, yellow and pink, as if we’re peering right into a psychedelic nymph stage. The flood lights bedazzled in every hue, and you might be enticed to forget the lyric’s bite. “We’re growing up now / We’re growing old,” the pair measure out their words with great care. There are no mysteries, just an emergency.
“Mayflies” is the title cut to the band’s new album, expected everywhere September 19.
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This one hits the mark. Fantastic.