Corvair are excited to share the video for “Wrong Again,” their sophomore album Bound To Be. The song begins with a fragile vocal and a spare piano, then develops into a lush ballad with evocative guitar work and vintage orchestration.
Singer Heather Larimer says of the song, “It was one of the last songs we wrote for the record, and I wasn’t sure it was viable, because it felt too vulnerable. But Brian picked it up and made it real.”
Guitarist and vocalist Brian Naubert says, “It was an interesting challenge to not smother what makes the song so beautiful—I usually like to layer on a lot of parts, and I had to fight that urge. And then having Mike, who is such a powerful drummer, be more Ringoesque, was also a fun experiment.”
The video for “Wrong Again” was shot in and around the sand dunes in coastal Oregon. It was directed, filmed and edited by Naubert. He says of the process, “The dunes are very eerie. It seems arbitrary where life takes hold or doesn’t, you see these random patches of sea grasses that won out. Also, it still surprises me what Heather is willing to do for a shot. This time, she hurled herself down a hill in front of a crowd of Fourth of July tourists. She knows how to commit.”
Corvair is a husband/wife duo from Portland, Oregon. Threading together 70’s pop, 80’s synth rock and 90’s indie rock, with influences from Berlin-era Bowie to Blondie, Lee and Nancy to the Breeders, Corvair’s evocative power pop is timeless and resonant. The duo’s second album, Bound to Be, veers from muscular rock songs to languid pop confessionals, from stunning atmospherics to raw intimacy, held together by sharp lyrics and potent imagery.
Bound to Be is the duo’s second album and is out now on Paper Walls and the cult indie-pop label Where It’s At is Where You Are records out of London, UK. It features Larimer and Naubert on vocals and instruments, along with Northwest powerhouse drummer Mike Musburger (Fastbacks, The Posies). After a thundering opening salvo with their self-titled debut, Bound to Be explores darker and more complex themes and traverses far-flung musical territory with mercurial mood swings.
