Soak It Up from Soft City Lights on Vimeo.

I had shot these videos a little while back when Wussy and The Turnbull ACs had opened for Okkervil River at The Mad Hatter in Covington. It was a day chock full of shooting, but was happy to do it since it was three bands that I love. I had sort of forgot about the footage with so much going on right now, and while packing for a move, The Ass Pony’s came up on random and reminded me about it. Something sparked and I finished these in about 3 days.

Chuck Cleaver does such a great job of getting a midwestern feel in his songs. With Wussy, that feeling is even amplified with Lisa Walker sharing the lead duties. Somehow, you can almost feel the cicadas and humidity in the summer (like right now) or the dirty snow lining streets in the winter right there in the music.

The following two videos round out the trifecta of Wussy songs that I chose to edit down, mainly based on the fact that I love these ones so much. Included is a new one, that I expect might be on the next one they’ll be starting to record sometime soon.

Soft City Lights presents Wussy: Yellow Cotton Dress from Soft City Lights on Vimeo.

Wussy: Death By Misadventure from Soft City Lights on Vimeo.

Side note: I wanted to put the QuickTime videos in here but ran out of time, so I embedded the Vimeo. Click the link below the videos to view the true HD versions. They only allow embeds up to 400px and I size them up to 640 for aesthetics but they come out pixelated. Or download it below.

06/20/08 *The iPod links were wrong before, they should be fixed now*

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SOAK IT UP
HD 720p (1280×720 94mb) | Medium (640×360 43mb) | iPod (240×120 16mb) | Vimeo HD | YouTube
YELLOW COTTON DRESS
HD 720p (1280×720 111mb) | Medium (640×360 51mb) | iPod (240×120 19mb) | Vimeo HD | YouTube
DEATH BY MISADVENTURE
HD 720p (1280×720 118mb) | Medium (640×360 53mb) | iPod (240×120 20mb) | Vimeo HD | YouTube