Last month, Beach Fossils announced their new album, Somersault, and shared the lead single, “This Year.” Today, they’re back with another new single titled “Saint Ivy.” It’s unlike any previous Beach Fossils’ material prominently featuring piano, strings and flute and politically charged lyrics ripe for these times.
Accompanying the single release is a striking video directed by Joey Chriqui and Milah Libin (Princess Nokia “Tomboy”). The video pays homage to New York City artists and features dancers that have all grown up in the NYC school system including well-known Brooklyn-based drag queen, Merrie Cherry.
Directors Chriqui and Libin had this to say about the video, “In uncertain times, we turn to New York City as a reassuring look into the true diversity of this country. We set out to create a vision of NYC that demonstrates a more honest and nuanced understanding of what it means to live here. This video represents the less visible places and characters that exist in beautiful harmony both in this city, and in America.”
Beach Fossils encourage fans and viewers to make donations (if they are able) to two incredible organizations: National Endowment for the Arts and Center for Arts Education NYC (both falling victim in recent times to our current administrations’ budget cuts). They want to make sure this video is a platform for people to be informed about the ability to speak out against the defunding of these programs, as well as collect any possible donations for their programs.
