Constantly Morphing with Central Heat Exchange and “Cold” [Video Premiere]
“I wanted to create a video with cold colors and constantly morphing shapes to match,” Jacob Stolz said about the vision behind Central Heat Exchange’s new visual accompaniment for their song “Cold,” which they aimed to reflect the track’s “dark & expansive psychedelic experience.”
The video in reference meets somewhere between staring at a lava lamp of cool colors and the intense fuzzy sensation of clenching your eyes closed to see what amoebas of static appear on the back of your lids, which is fitting for the song’s heavy blanket of shoegaze and alt. rock sound a la Infinity Girl, Sun June, and T.A.G.A.B.O.W.
Central Heat Exchange are sharing the music video today with W.W:
Central Heat Exchange is a band with feet in Chicago, Winnipeg, Austin, and beyond through brothers Jake and Paul Stolz, alongside musicians Adam Soloway and Santiago Dietche, supported by friends and collaborators all over. The definite supergroup (itself compromising members of Varsity, Living Hour, Discus, Pool Holograph, Daphne Tunes, etc.) have teamed up with an equally powerful independent label trifecta in Citrus City, Sunroom Records, and Birthday Cake Media to release their self-titled debut full length earlier this year.
“It was a pretty pure and rewarding early experiment...”
Photo courtesy of the artist.
Despite the distance and experience, Central Heat Exchange remains a largely experimental outlet for its members. ”This was my first music video incorporating video feedback, which involves pointing a camera at its own monitor, tweaking camera placement and color settings, putting things in front of the camera,” Stolz told Wormbrain about the process of creating the “Cold” music video. “It was a pretty pure and rewarding early experiment with the technique. I added Adam (Soloway) and my floating, singing heads into this world to complete the video.”
W.W: What is Wormbrain?
CHE: When you’re at the park and a worm falls on your head and you take it off and make direct eye contact with it wondering if it is your great great grandfather reincarnated into a worm and it’s all you can think about for weeks, you got worm brain!
W.W: Thank you for sharing with Wormbrain.
Central Heat Exchange’s Central Heat Exchange is out now everywhere via Citrus City, Sunroom, & Birthday Cake.
