Eldridge Rodriguez, “Giving Myself Over To Boston”
We all have a love/hate relationship with Boston. In this video from scene veterans Eldridge Rodriguez, taken from a single off October’s The Castrati Menace LP, the love letter takes visual form. Says frontman Cameron Keiber: “Every city has problems but sometimes it seems Boston has more than the average city its size, historically, currently, and institutionally. There is a lot of misguided boot-and-rally pride in this town and I don’t think that attitude represents every one’s experience here. That mentality gets exhausting to be around. Boston has a lot going on that people outside the city don’t normally associate with it. So we were having a bit of fun with that, I guess. It’s all tongue-in-cheek. But you are always more critical of the things you love and most endeared to. I felt like Boston deserved a Randy Newman-esq anthem and could have some fun with itself.”