Deafheaven will release their documentary, The Vast Sterling Purple, today at 5 p.m. PT through Veeps. The documentary, filmed by Sean Stout and Liam Stewart, features the band while on tour between September and October of this year with Harm’s Way and I Promised The World, journeying through small-town America.
“It’s more about connecting with people who don’t normally get to see the band and going out to them and giving them as good a show as you would in those other places,” vocalist George Clarke says. “Going to college towns and going to smaller suburbs, going to places where people do not go to as many shows, you never know what the reaction is going to be.”
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Instead of a traditional tour concert film, the documentary juxtaposes their live performances with reflective moments with the band. They discuss the importance of reaching the tinier pockets of America and writing their recent full-length, Lonely People with Power, released earlier this year. After years of experimentation across their discography, the band opted to home in on writing music for the live show.
“Early on, that was a real motiivation because there isn’t a huge blueprint for what we do, a lot of what we create is done in a way that is sort of flying blind,” Clarke explains. “We have enough records under our belt, and a lot of experimentation having been done over those albums, I think we arrived at a place that was very comfortable. I really thought that, for us to get our point across, I had to do the thing I’ve always done, which is reach in and assess my own life and the things that have made me me, to a much stronger degree.”
Check out the trailer for Deafheaven’s The Vast Sterling Purple below and see the full doc here.
