Deafheaven have released their new documentary The Vast Sterling Purple, which is available right now through Veeps.
Filmed by Sean Stout and Liam Stewart, the project follows the band’s run through small town America across September and October, touring with Harm’s Way and I Promised The World.
The documentary captures Deafheaven playing towns far outside the major market circuit, letting their shows unfold in places that don’t typically get heavy touring traffic.
“It’s more about connecting with people who don’t normally get to see the band and going out to them and giving them as good a show as you would in those other places,” vocalist George Clarke says.
“Going to college towns and going to smaller suburbs, going to places where people do not go to as many shows, you never know what the reaction is going to be.”
Stepping outside of the box
Rather than sticking to the usual live concert format, The Vast Sterling Purple cuts between performance footage and introspective conversations with the band, they talk about why they wanted to reach “the tinier pockets of America” and how that tied into writing their recent full length Lonely People with Power, released earlier this year.
After pushing their sound across multiple genres through the last decade, the band say this cycle brought them back to writing music made with the live stage in mind. “Early on, that was a real motivation because there isn’t a huge blueprint for what we do, a lot of what we create is done in a way that is sort of flying blind,” Clarke explains.
“We have enough records under our belt, and a lot of experimentation having been done over those albums, I think we arrived at a place that was very comfortable. I really thought that, for us to get our point across, I had to do the thing I’ve always done, which is reach in and assess my own life and the things that have made me me, to a much stronger degree.”
Watch The Vast Sterling Purple on Veeps here!
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