Josué Kinter is a multi-disciplinary artist with a wide-ranging catalogue. Hailing from Arizona’s Sonoran Desert, Josué crafts dark and dreamy ballads that are equally influenced by cowboy crooners like Lee Hazlewood as they are by avant-pop artists such as Scott Walker and Velvet Underground. With his backing band, The Empty Pleasures, he channels the sounds of early americana, jazz, and blues through a moody post-punk lens using ambient & experimental textures - always with a nod to his beloved desert home.
Yr not safe
Yr Not Safe is the debut single from Josué Kinter’s upcoming EP “Such Empty Pleasures”. On this third outing, he departs from the ensemble approach of his first two albums and explores heavier, more aggressive territory with a full band. With droning keys and a dark nihilistic backbeat, Yr Not Safe harkens to Kinter’s grimier influences such as The Stooges or Sonic Youth.
The music video is 100% DIY - self-directed, self-edited, and shot on a budget of less than $100. It drags the viewer into a fever dream-like state where a pair of clowns watch the band perform on an old television set, enhanced by visions of antique circus acts. In this world, who is truly the spectator and who is the the spectacle?