Watch Bomb A Lil Joy’s uneasy video for dark new hymn, “Our Great Sorrow”

On December 5, Bomb A Lil Joy, the collaborative project between Eugene Robinson (Buñuel, formerly Oxbow) and Christian McKenna (Pynuka), will release their debut album Baby Blue via Translation Loss. They’ve already shared one single from the album, “Unpaid Attorney,” and today they’ve released another new track, “Our Great Sorrow.” It’s a dark and noisy hymn, rife with buzzing electronics and driven by the rhythms of electronic Simmons drums from Colin Marston (Krallice). It arrives in the form of a video, juxtaposing sack races and footage of destruction, directed by Kevin Haus. Watch it below.

Robinson said about the song and video, “What may have been missed is that the defining horror of some of our lives has been and was the Vietnam War. The war there and then the war back home when everyone came back fucked out of their heads introducing us to a wholly different kind of misery. I still have newsreel dreams about it. And while only about 66,000 Americans died over 1 million Vietnamese did too. The ‘through the looking glass’ stink is what’s going on here and better it gets out of my head than stay in.”

McKenna added, “Our Great Sorrow started from a jam at Colin’s old Menegroth place 4 or 5 years ago in Woodhaven, NY. This was right around St Patty’s.  I had an amazing corn beef and cabbage dinner at Neir’s Tavern right next to the old studio the night we were doing these instrumental exercises. A picture of me sitting down to that meal is attached.

“We kinda camped out in the control room for a few days with my synth and sampler… he had this electronic synth kit thing.. We were doing these short little concise pieces. Get one done then on to the next. I didn’t want to spend too much time on them.”