Thurston Moore Shares "Speak to the Wild" Video

Thurston Moore has shared a video to accompany his new LP, The Best Day. The visual for “Speak to the Wild”, directed by Santiago Mostyn, finds a woman searching through an overcast wooded area for her son, encountering a number of oddities along the way. 

In a press release, Mostyn described the inspiration for the video:

My dad tells a story of when I first came to visit him in San Francisco. I was six, and living in rural Zimbabwe with my mother, and he had gotten together some cash to fly us over. Political circumstances had taken my parents in different directions when I was a baby and this would be my first time back to his city. On our first trip out to Golden Gate Park, my dad helped me onto a bicycle and smiled as I rode off. But I didn’t stop where I was supposed to, and he describes seeing his wild-haired African son disappearing into the woods of this enormous park, followed by the sinking fear that he may have just lost me for good. For my part, I was happy, and have since spent large parts of my life building new realities in this realm of the lost.

The Best Day is out this week on Matador. For the album, Moore’s band includes My Bloody Valentine’s 
Deb Googe
, Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley, and James Sedwards
.

Watch Moore play “Benediction” at Pitchfork Music Festival:

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