Ecca Vandal spent her early years as a jazz musician, however she shortly discovered a hyperlink between lawless improvisation and punk. Earlier than becoming a member of Limp Bizkit on tour in Europe, the Sri Lankan musician has shared the video for “CRUISING TO SELF SOOTHE” — an homage to skate tradition and self-belief.
That includes bruising screams and PMA, the music leans into Vandal’s unabashed love for Nirvana, Fugazi, and Turnstile, penned in 2018 whereas dwelling in London. “My companion and I have been listening to a lot Fugazi and Ritual-era Jane’s Habit. We undoubtedly owe a critical debt to these nice bands whose music, maybe not by the way, is so excellent to skate to,” Vandal tells AP. “Man Picciotto’s vocals particularly had a big impact on me on the time.”
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The concept for the music video — premiering under with AP — got here later, when Vandal took up skateboarding in the course of the pandemic. “I’d all the time cherished skate tradition, but it surely wasn’t till I began studying to skate in a heart-shaped bowl in a little bit suburb referred to as Knox that I actually felt its influence,” she provides. “Skating there, so offline and current within the second, turned a type of self-soothing for me. The music is about shedding negativity and discovering self-belief, and the various days I spent at that skate bowl completely represented that journey — feeling small and unsteady at first, then steadily proudly owning each curve. And I’ve acquired to shout out the cute ‘Ecca Practice,’ a prop that symbolizes the back-and-forth experience of constructing confidence — doing it with type and as if no one’s watching.”
See the video for “CRUISING TO SELF SOOTHE” under.
