- Dale Crover of the Melvins has released a new music video for "I Can't Help You There," from his forthcoming debut album Rat-A-Tat-Tat!, which was released on January 15, 2021. This video was directed by Crover, Toshi Kasai and Alicia Kasai.
- Melvins drummer Dale Crover is sharing a horror short for his new single "I Can't Help You There," which features his band rocking face-masks with distorted human mouths on them, channeling "Come to Daddy" levels of eerie imagery. "I enlisted Toshi Kasai and Alicia Kasai to help direct, film and edit. I gave them the basic ideas I had and they ran with them," Crover shares before citing a handful of other visual reference points. "Inspiration came from One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, The Cramps' 1978 performance at Napa State Mental Hospital, and the creepy face mask of LA Dodger Kiké Hernández." "I Can't Help You There" is the second cut from Crover's sophomore solo LP Rat-a-Tat-Tat!, via Joyful Noise Records.
Between 36 years (and about as many full-lengths and EPs) as drummer/bassist for the Melvins and his contributions to acts as varied as Altamont, Peeping Tom, Redd Kross, Shrinebuilder, and a little band called Nirvana, he's built quite the body of work. In 2017, he added a proper solo album to his extensive catalog, The Fickle Finger of Fate. Now he's followed that with Rat-A-Tat-Tat!
Crover takes the solo thing seriously: he wrote the album while on the road and provided vocals, drums, guitars, vibraphone, and miscellaneous percussion. Just like the last album, recording took place over at Toshi Kasai's Sound of Sirens Studio in beautiful Sun Valley, CA. Kasai recorded and mixed it again, as well as co-producing it with Crover under the sobriquet Deaf Nephews. Celebrated graphic designer (and regular Melvins cover artist) Mackie Osborne created the striking album art,.
Crover, has also been busy in 2020 behind the scenes working on Melvins TV which will be out 2021.
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