“…continue defying expectations and exploring new sounds with each new album.” – A.V. Club

“That dichotomy between dark imagery and danceable, inventive rock has always been a hallmark of Minus The Bear’s sound” – Noisey

“The result of the band’s recent adversity is an exceptionally cohesive effort that ranks among the best of its catalog to date.” – Relix

Minus the Bear and Suicide Squeeze Records are thrilled to share the new music video for “Last Kiss,” directed by Dan Huiting and filmed at his studio in Minneapolis. Premiering today on VICE’s Creators Project, the video is intended to look like it was shot through a kaleidoscope. “While about 80% of the effects in this video were done in post,” Huiting shares, “there are some multiplying and light-refracting effects that were done ‘in-camera’ by placing different pieces of glass and plastic prisms in front of the lens, and moving them around by hand as the performer moves.” This is a technique that cannot achieve the same result twice, making for an even more unique final product. “When I first heard ‘Last Kiss,’” Huiting adds, “I instantly saw the band performing in a new, digital world that would be beautifully surreal and geometrically inspired.”

VOIDS marks Minus the Bear’s first new full-length in five years. It was released to much critical acclaim in March and is out now on Suicide Squeeze Records. Minus the Bear is continuing to tour across the US, Europe and Australia in support; all upcoming tour dates are listed below.

Watch the music video for “Last Kiss” at VICE Creators Project

For the past 15 years Minus the Bear have made music on their own terms while carving out their own unique musical world, selling over 500k records in the process and playing to countless sold out crowds along the way. This isn’t to say they’re impervious to outside influence. They’ve borrowed components from a wide swath of genres—the brainy clangor of New York’s proto-punk scene, the cerebral buzz of IDM, the poptimist evaluation of hip-hop and R&B, and the grandiose visions of prog rock—but always managed to defy classification.

On their sixth album VOIDS, produced by Sam Bell (The Cribs, Weezer, Bloc Party, Two Door Cinema Club), Minus the Bear started with a blank slate, and inadvertently found themselves applying the same starting-from-scratch strategies that fueled their initial creative process. “There was a lot of change and uncertainty,” says guitarist David Knudson. “I think the general vibe of emptiness, replacement, lacking, and longing to fill in the gaps was very present in everyones’ minds.”