Single/Video Review: Smoke You Right Out Of Here

Dunedin’s David Kilgour has a music career longer than a pro basketballer’s arm. At a guess 90% of you know his backstory, so I’m not going to write it her, just google ‘David Kilgour Clean Dunedin’, and you’ll see he’s been one of the most influential songwriters to come out of Dunedin.

David Kilgour has been creating critically acclaimed beautiful guitar drives pop since featuring at the birth of the ‘Dunedin sound’, and this new song sounds as fresh as it’s come from a group of young indie pop stars determined to make their mark.

Kilgour continues to ride a wave of musical brilliance.

The video for Smoke You Right Out Of Here was posted to YouTube by Merge records on July 18 and cracked nearly 3000 views in 12 days. One of the great things about social media (conversely it’s also it’s the greatest downfall) is the ability for people to comment on posts. My favourite comment on Kilgour’s newest 2:48 slab of brilliance is “Love it! Every time I hear a David Kilgour song I feel happy! Just pre-ordered the new album”. – Jesse Welbes.

Smoke You Right Out Of Here is David Kilgour and the Heavy Eights in fine form. It has been captured beautifully by southern audio stalwart and long time pal of Kilgour’s, Tex Houston, along with Tom Bell at Port Chalmers Recording Services. If the rest of the album, coming from Merge Records on September 20th, is even a third as good as this tune, it’ll be a killer LP.

The video for this track is beautiful and spectacular; opening and closing with black and white slow motion shots of waves breaking. There are montage shots of cars traveling, nature close ups, and a bunch of post-production trickery on a couple of cinematic sequences of skylines. It’s a very pretty video, for a dreamy pop tune.

One thing’s for sure – I’m looking forward to the album.