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Lake Ruth release "Yet Tomorrow Still Comes" video (watch), playing free NYC show

Lake Ruth, which features members of The New Lines, Enon/Holy Fuck, and The Eighteenth Day of May, released their debut album, Actual Entity, back in June. It’s a beaut of an update on the pristine, proggy, baroque psych sound and if you haven’t checked it out yet you can stream the whole thing below. The album’s closer, “Yet Tomorrow Still Comes,” has a new video which was made by previous collaborator Raymond Salvatore Harmon. You can watch the video below. Singer Allison Brice also told us about the song’s unique origins which you can read below as well.

As mentioned, Lake Ruth will be playing Rooftop Film’s LOL Movie Series on July 26 at Solar One (23rd St. at the East River in Manhattan). It’s a free show where they’ll play before a screening of When Harry Met Sally. Doors are at 7:45 PM and Lake Ruth are on at 8 PM. It’s only Lake Ruth’s second live show ever and Allison Brice, Hewson Chen and Matt Schulz will be aided by René Dennis (The New Lines), James Canty (The Make-Up, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Savak) and Sohrab Habibion (Edsel, Obits, Savak). You do need to RSVP.

Related: Matt Schulz plays with Holy Fuck tonight (7/19) at Bowery Ballroom with DOOMSQUAD opening.

“Strangely enough, ‘Actual Entity’s’ closer, ‘Yet Still Tomorrow Comes’ was the very first piece of music that we worked on together – before Lake Ruth had really solidified into a group. I had originally written it with my previous band, The Eighteenth Day Of May, in mind – following a visit to an ancient Cambridgeshire pub, The Old Ferry Boat Inn in the village of Holywell. A feature of the pub floor is the supposed gravestone of a young girl named Juliet Tewsley, who is said to have died in 1050 and reportedly haunts the premises. The song is sung from the perspective of her grieving and vengeful mother. However, it was never recorded beyond a very sparse and abstract demo, and languished on my hard drive for some years until Hewson got hold of it and started working his singular magic. Then, just when we thought it couldn’t get any more intense, Matt added his drums and really propelled it to another level. From that point on, we knew that we’d hit on something interesting, and soon enough the album began to take shape.”