By Will McGuirk

As promised the veritable band of brotherly music makers mary&adelaide have dropped the ball, the ball as in the video, for their track “Faded.” The song is available on their debut cassette, see previous post here.

Slowcity.ca reached out to Aidan McGuirk, main singer/songwriter for the band, to get the deets on the vid, which really means I shouted down to the basement, hey whats with the video!.

”We filmed the video at the end of the Summer with no budget. I’ve had the concept for long over a year and it had been in circulation for awhile until I think quarantine really motivated us to make something for ourselves,” he says “It was filmed, edited and directed entirely by both Luke and Sam. Our friend Alex Nunes who we’ve recorded vocals with helped us a bunch filming too. Those guys absolutely killed it and I’m so proud of what we made on our own by ourselves without reaching out to anybody else for anything. It connects to the song in many symbolic ways, some more obvious than others. I’ve had the idea for the ball to the face close up forever and has always been an image I picture when I listen to or play the song. I think the more obvious connections would be the theme of a lot of our music, balance of angst and optimism, not being afraid to fail or humiliate yourself when going to great lengths to express yourself.”