Bummer Camp Want to Vanish. They Made a Record About It Instead.

Queens shoegaze/grunge outfit Bummer Camp just dropped their sophomore album Fake My Death via Trash Casual Records, and alongside it comes the video for "Perfect Storm" — one of the album's centerpieces and the track that gave the record its name. Frontman Eli Frank explains: 'Wanna fake my death cause I can't stomach anything' is the lyric that sparked the whole thing, a meditation on the urge to disappear versus the harder work of staying present. "Whether you're being punched or hugged, feeling something is better than not feeling anything at all," he says.

The video was shot around Highland Park in Glendale, Queens by longtime collaborator Preston Spurlock — who also edited it and handled the animated sequences — with additional live footage captured at Gold Sounds by Ryon Dickerson.

Fake My Death was recorded at The Animal Farm, a farm-based studio in New Jersey, and marks a real step forward from the lo-fi origins of Bummer Camp's earlier work — bigger and more focused, but still with enough texture and character to feel like a band and not a product. Bummer Camp is also heading out for a release weekend run starting May 21 through Belmar, Brooklyn, Philly, and Kingston.