For their entire musical life, brothers Vince and Jimmy DeWald have been assembling their sound, from their Midwest upbringing, growing up in Indiana, immersed in grunge and more indie rock to living in San Francisco for 15 years, releasing their self-titled debut as Brand New Trash in 2012, a heavier spell of garage rock, before taking in more semblances of Americana on You Can in 2015 and third release Right in Front of You from 2020.
In 2021, the Dewalds transplanted themselves once again to Nashville, where they began discovering new common ground, musically and lyrically, wrapping around songs of love, life, and the world at large, something they set into the new single “Patience For This World.”
Well, you build it all / Then you knock it all down / You walk a million miles / And have to turn right back around / You finally get what you want / But you don’t want it anymore, sing the brothers on finding new perspective when everything seems to fall apart around you.
If you don’t find some hope in these lyrics, then this world is going to be a rough ride.
“It’s about having patience in the world at a time when it ain’t easy,” the DeWald brothers tell American Songwriter.
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In the music video for “Patience For This World,” produced by Red Tailed Hawk Productions and animator Mike Kin, the imagery depicts two points of view, from feeling stuck to more hopeful, moving from black and white footage of the brothers performing to a more vivid animated landscape.
“In the video, we wanted to paint this picture of patience, with a black and white world set against a parallel colorful, animated world,” they share. “The video starts with a dystopian black and white world set on a [demolished] construction site, where it is all too easy to get dragged down.”
They add, “But instead of being dragged down, we have patience and move through this maze with a song. Then, suddenly, we emerge into the vast, cosmic, and colorful world within, where love wins and joy is always possible. We wanted to transport viewers to the deep worlds that live inside us and the alternate realities we can create when we choose to see in color rather than black and white.”
By the end of the song, and a strings and harmonica-filled coda, the DeWalds also appear as animated raccoons in the video, which they call their “alter egos.”
“Who is better at turning trash into treasure than raccoons?” say the DeWalds. “Our band name is Brand New Trash, after all. The video is meant to be fun and lead to a note of optimism, which is a central theme throughout our new album.”
No Trash, No Beauty “plays off of that duality and shows how we learned to make our differences a strength,” says the Dewalds, and also became a turning point for the brothers in finding patience with one another.
“When you play in a band with your brother for as long as we have, you learn a lot about patience,” they add. “Yes, there’s a lot of common ground, but there’s also strong differences.”
They continue, “In the process, we made the most cohesive album of our careers: sonically and thematically,” said the Dewalds. “Just like the video for ‘Patience For This World,’ we wanted to make this album feel like a high note. Adding joy to the human narrative at a time when so many are feeling so much distress. Life is a paradox. No Trash, No Beauty.”
Photos: Laura Schneider
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