Ecca Vandal spent her early years as a jazz musician, however she rapidly discovered a hyperlink between lawless improvisation and punk. Earlier than becoming a member of Limp Bizkit on tour in Europe, the Sri Lankan musician has shared the video for “CRUISING TO SELF SOOTHE” — an homage to skate tradition and self-belief.
That includes bruising screams and PMA, the track leans into Vandal’s unabashed love for Nirvana, Fugazi, and Turnstile, penned in 2018 whereas dwelling in London. “My accomplice and I have been listening to a lot Fugazi and Ritual-era Jane’s Habit. We positively owe a severe debt to these nice bands whose music, maybe not by the way, is so excellent to skate to,” Vandal tells AP. “Man Picciotto’s vocals specifically had a big impact on me on the time.”
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The thought for the music video — premiering under with AP — got here later, when Vandal took up skateboarding throughout the pandemic. “I’d all the time cherished skate tradition, nevertheless it wasn’t till I began studying to skate in a heart-shaped bowl in a little bit suburb known as Knox that I actually felt its impression,” she provides. “Skating there, so offline and current within the second, grew to become a type of self-soothing for me. The track is about shedding negativity and discovering self-belief, and the various days I spent at that skate bowl completely represented that journey — feeling small and unsteady at first, then step by step proudly owning each curve. And I’ve bought to shout out the lovable ‘Ecca Practice,’ a prop that symbolizes the back-and-forth trip of constructing confidence — doing it with fashion and as if no person’s watching.”
See the video for “CRUISING TO SELF SOOTHE” under.
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