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Get Dizzy Watching SPLASHH's Video for "Rings"

Those with motion sickness look away now.

America: SPLASHH are coming for you. They may have cut their teeth in east London, but the band—consisting of a bunch of Aussies and a dude from Auckland—have now moved to the Lower East Side to cause a trouble with their second album Waiting a Lifetime, coming out in April via Cinematic Records. It's the follow up to the easy, breezy, shoegaze pop of their 2013 debut Comfort.

With a bass drum thump like an agitated heart after too many amphetamines, musically "Rings" is scuzzy indie-pop that zips into one ear and stays lodged in your brain. Meanwhile this black and white video, premiering below, will make you feel like you're trapped in a zoetrope.

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"The 'Rings' video is a collaboration with long time friend and director Errol Rainey who we have worked with since starting the band," explain the band. "The idea was initially inspired by the opening scene from one of our favorite films Candy. We always like incorporating mixed mediums in our videos, the use of different cameras and speeds. This time around one simple performance & concept that we felt best represented the track."

Initially we thought they might mean the 60s film Candy, whose imdb synopsis runs: "Candy, an innocent high-schooler, encounters numerous colorful characters and humorous sexual situations while attempting to find meaning in life." Which sounds pretty sweet. But on further investigation, the videos dizzying aspects are lifted from the 2006 film with Abbie Cornish and Heath Ledger—about a poet falling in love with a heroin-addicted art school kid. Watch below.

Splashh Tour Dates
January 19 - Allston, MA - Great Scott*
January 20 - Washington, D.C. - Song Byrd*
January 21 - Philadelphia, PA - Milkboy*
January 23 - Atlanta, GA - Masquerade*
January 24 - Nashville, TN - The End*
January 26 - Chicago, IL - Schuba's*
January 27 - Detroit, MI - UFO Factory*
January 28 - Toronto, ON - The Garrison*
February 9 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom*

April 19 - Brighton, UK - PatternsApril 20 - Birmingham, UK - Hare and Hound
April 21 - Sheffield, UK - Picture House Social
April 22 - Leeds, UK - Headrow House
April 24 - Glasgow, UK - The Hug and Pint
April 25 - Manchester, UK - Night and Day Cafe
April 26 - London, UK - Bussey Buildings
April 28 - Paris, FR - L'Espace B
* = with Public Access T.V.