‘I Just Want A House’ by Iguana Death Cult | New Album, ‘Echo Palace’
Exclusive video premiere of ‘I Just Want A House’ by Iguana Death Cult, taken from the newest album, ‘Echo Palace,’ out today via Innovative Leisure.
Today, Dutch rock band Iguana Death Cult shares their highly anticipated LP ‘Echo Palace.’ Alongside the release today, the band additionally shares a music video for the record’s focus track, ‘I Just Want A House’.
On the track, the band wrote: “Oh the trouble we’ve found ourselves in! Young people are struggling to find a decent place to live, summers have gotten so hot that vast areas of land are turning into scorched earth, not only is there a patch of plastic in the ocean the size of Texas, apparently we swallow a credit card’s worths of microplastic per person every week. Human greed has pushed us to the limits of existence. But since we wrote this groovy dancing song about it, we’re probably not even close to being scared enough.”
Continuing on the track’s accompanying video, they wrote: “Because we were playing shows in the UK, we weren’t able to work on this video ourselves, so we gave Hache complete freedom to make what he wanted. He joined forces with his actor friend Nol Klis and artist Helia Rafi, who made the 3D render. ‘The idea for the video was about somebody trying to run away from the city and decided to live in the forest by himself. But you can’t run away from yourself!’ says Hache. I think it covers the message of the song very well since it’s about having trouble keeping up in a rapidly changing world and the desire to have a place of your own.”
The end result of ‘Echo Palace’ is an appropriately worldly album from a group breaking past the confines of its home country. That’s not to say that Iguana Death Cult aren’t proudly Dutch; the group takes from the trademark hard work ethic of their Rotterdam base and applies it to their approach with music. But it’s 2022, and we’re less defined by our borders than ever before. “When we play in other countries, for me that gives the same amount of pleasure — or even more — than when we play in the Netherlands,” says Opschoor.
“We’re not just little countries anymore, everything is global,” adds Reek, speaking about society at large — but he might as well be speaking about the Iguana Death Cult itself. “We’re turning into a global thing.”
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