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Video Premiere: Lavender Diamond, 'Open Your Heart'


Becky Stark and her buzz-laden folk-pop group Lavender Diamond rollerskate and high-step through the streets of suburban Los Angeles in the video for the first single off their debut album, 'Imagine Our Love.' Stark called upon Australian songtress (and former Zero 7 vocalist) Sia for directorial duties. Watch the video premiere after the jump.

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boopie

whoa, this girl can't skate and it ruins the video! i like the song though...

October 30 2007 at 4:24 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
bill

I love Lavender Diamond, but I have to say this video is a huge disappointment.

May 30 2007 at 1:46 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jayjoplin

Love it cause Becky is real and the band works hard to remain enchanted in a mostly fallen world. "Hipster" isn't even remotely on point since it connotes posturing, and if you've known this band and its members--each of whom epitomize the opposite of poser--it's inconceivable. Echo Park might be in the midst of a current implosion, but Becky and LD are prehistoric compared to most everyone else in that scene.
What I love about this music is the earthy, meatloaf-esque chorus/anthem, the ethereal quality of her voice, the piano sounds like parlor room sing alongs, the LSD inspired costumery, the politics of optimism. It borders on delusion, grand illusion, chicanery--and that it walks this razor line is a strength.
You have got to realize how impossible this stuff is to translate in any context other than live performance or almost dialogue. At shows, Becky talks A LOT...and this really sets up the context for the songs. Some aspects of trance, power ballads, humanistic spellcasting. Rock videos, third party music industry reviews, outsiders with no committment seem to attack it at the most obvious level. They doubt its authentic, but if you have ever willed yourself out of depression and back into the light, you'd understand that there's a little bit of deception at the center of anything truly magical and transformative.
This is music for healing in the most literal way.

May 15 2007 at 6:10 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Alexandre Poulin

Absolutely love this song. The album is quite annoying though, :(

May 15 2007 at 10:14 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mgrossinger

great song but the band's annoying hipster aesthetic + self-conscious cuteness give me a toothache.

May 13 2007 at 5:00 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ikes

the album is a bit of a letdown, but i still have faith in becky and the rest!

May 07 2007 at 5:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
dontneedanything

i love it! and the album is wonderful.

May 04 2007 at 4:34 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
darlingkel

the EP offered so much potential. if this single and video is a sign of things to come from the new full-length, i'm less than enthused. here's hoping to better tracks...

May 03 2007 at 9:11 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
EMO WILLIAMS

i dig it.

May 03 2007 at 7:41 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
hu-card

this is kind of terrible!

May 03 2007 at 12:48 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply