The Marias share video for “ABQ”

The Marías have shared a new video for "ABQ,"
The Marias "ABQ"

The Marías have shared a new video for “ABQ,” the clip was co-directed by lead vocalist María and Ian Lipton, and is lifted off off the band’s 2018 album Superclean Volume II and premiered with two special showings at LA’s Los Feliz Theatre on Monday night. The video marks their fourth collaboration with director and award-winning cinematographer Ian Lipton and uses distinct lighting and coloUr to express the taxing feelings of anxiety that the song is based around.

“ABQ” was originally written and recorded in the van on the band’s first tour, and the visual captures Marías anxieties at the time as an artist and a person, traveling as the only woman amongst a group of six men. “I remember recording vocals and having to go underneath a blanket so that no one could hear or see me,” María says. The visual acts as a visual representation of María’s headspace at the time where shadowed manifestations of doubts and anxieties follow her in a cyclical pattern.

The Marías
Superclean Volume II
Track Listing

1. Ruthless
2. Cariño
3. ABQ
4. Loverboy
5. Over The Moon
6. Clueless

The Marias
Live Dates

4/18 – Pomona, CA @ Fox Theater* SOLD OUT
4/24 – El Paso, TX @ Lowbrow Palace^
4/25 – San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger SOLD OUT
4/26 – Fort Worth, TX @ Main at South Side SOLD OUT
4/27 – Houston, TX @ Satellite Bar SOLD OUT
4/28 – Austin, TX @ Antone’s SOLD OUT
4/30 – St. Louis, MO @ Old Rock House
5/1 – Kansas City, MO @ The Riot Room
5/3 – Denver, CO @ The Marquis Theater
5/4 – Fort Collins, CO @ Magic Rat Live Music
5/5 – Santa Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf^
5/16 – Riverside, CA @ The Concert Lounge SOLD OUT
5/17 – Riverside, CA @ The Concert Lounge SOLD OUT
5/18 – Santa Barbara, CA @ SOhO Restaurant & Music Club SOLD OUT
5/21 – Paris, France @ L’Espace B
5/23 – London, UK @ Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club
5/24 – Manchester, UK @ Dot to Dot Festival
5/25 – Bristol, UK @ Dot to Dot Festival
5/26 – Nottingham, UK @ Dot to Dot Festival
5/29 – Los Angeles, CA @ Royce Hall at UCLA
7/12-14 – Louisville, KY @ Waterfront Park Great Lawn
7/14 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Smiling Moose
8/2-4 – Happy Valley, OR @ Pickathon 2019
8/9-11 – San Francisco, CA @ Outside Lands

*= w/ Khruangbin
^ = Loyal Lobos

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