O-Face is the latest great band to come out of the Bard College music scene. They released their debut album Taste last month, and it's a sweet-sounding collection of nervous and smart indie rock. It's concerned with growing up and trying to fit in, or at least carving out a safe space in which you can find yourself. "O-Thang" is a highlight on the album and serves as a quasi-mission statement: "O-Face sits by himself but he can't picture no one else/ He's following all of his dreams or so, or so it seems/ O-Face, you're looking glum, well crack another cold one/ You're absent in all of our dreams or so, or so it seems." The Halloween-themed video for the song is all about trying to recapture your youth: the band gets dressed up to go trick-or-treating, but when they get turned away from a house because they're too old, they decide to rebel instead. They break pumpkins in a parking lot, toilet paper a house, go to a party, and drink a lot of beers. The video is shot in an unassuming but perceptive way by directing duo Free Throw. Watch below.
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Taste is out now. It will have a cassette tape release next month on Sad Cactus Records. The band's favorite candy is Skittles, but not sour apple Skittles.
