{"id":17383,"date":"2017-01-25T17:19:34","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T22:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/?p=17383"},"modified":"2018-08-09T17:08:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T21:08:00","slug":"playing-detroit-frontier-ruckus-flowers-still-burning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/playing-detroit-frontier-ruckus-flowers-still-burning\/","title":{"rendered":"PLAYING DETROIT: Frontier Ruckus “Our Flowers Are Still Burning” Video"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Matthew Milia and his gaggle of lovelorn folkies – otherwise known as Frontier Ruckus – return with a sardonic make-out party prelude to their forthcoming record Enter the Kingdom<\/em>. The sad, sensual clip for latest\u00a0single “Our Flowers Are Still Burning” offers a\u00a0camcorder view of social loneliness ahead of the album’s February 17th release.\u00a0A slow-dance, folk-ified, Big Star-esque confessional with a touch of reversed male gaze, “Flowers” instills hopeful resonance with listlessness revery, something the Frontier gang has championed and expanded upon.<\/p>\n

Singer and guitarist Anna Burch documents the party through a vintage handheld, a perfect companion to Ruckus’ boxes-in-your-parents-attic aesthetic. The low-key gathering is standard Detroit, containing a quiet cast of characters who find temporary love, lust and casual catharsis in one another. Burch wanders upstairs to discover\u00a0Milia alone, singing and soaking fully clothed in a running shower as spit swapping commences\u00a0downstairs. Whether Milia is struck by social anxiety, heartache or an overwhelming sense of not knowing his role in the grand (and not-so-grand) scheme of things, Burch lovingly coerces him from his bath time meltdown with the promise of a cake decorated with sugary, saccharine letters spelling out the song’s title.<\/p>\n

The band leaves the house party in the dead of winter, Milia still wet and without a jacket or a lover, but surrounded by his\u00a0Frontier Ruckus bandmates, resigned to\u00a0keep on trucking even in the harsh light of the morning after.<\/p>\n

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Grab a tissue or a kiss and take a sad soak with Frontier Ruckus below:<\/p>\n

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