PREMIERE: Octoberman - "Thirty Reasons" (video) (Mixed Media)
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The new video for Octoberman's "Thirty Reasons", from Fortresses begins naturally enough: a man with a guitar sits outside and sings a plea for somebody to come back home and settle down. His reasons are numerous--though we never hear the specifics--but ineffective, and the singer knows it: "But I know / the thirty reasons you / have to break away / and set out on your own". Are pleading lover songs ever really about winning somebody back? Isn't that sort of an outlandish expectation? The natural vibe breaks when a woman comes on-screen with a bounce and a stolid two-step…
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