Watch the video for Mint Field’s interstellar slow jam, “Nuevo Sol”
The Mexico City via Tijuana band will drop their next album, Aprender a Ser, on October 27 via felte.
As Mint Field prepare to release their next album, Aprender a Ser, the Tijuana-originated, Mexico City-based band are premiering the video for the record’s third single, “Nuevo Sol,” with The FADER. The song is a psychedelic slow burn that finds frontwoman Estrella del Sol singing in wispy, enthralling tones over her own flickering guitar line and Sebastian Neyra’s deliberately plotted rhythm section. “Quiero ser energía de la luz,” she sings near the end of the track, sounding very much like the “energy of light” she hopes to become. According to the band, it’s a song about “about the need of light in our lives, but primarily the physical need of light in our bodies.”
The video for “Nuevo Sol,” directed by Arlene Müller, sets the track to a fluid montage in which Estrella lays in bed under colorful lights, dresses in front of a full-length mirror, wanders through fields and forests, and meets up with Sebastian, falling into his arms in the clip’s final moments.
”Mint Field’s hypnotic, ethereal track inspired me to explore a world of interconnection through dreams and memories,” Müller tells The FADER. “Two magical lovers appear and disappear to each other in a hazy dance of shadows, light, and color.”
Watch the visuals below, and scroll further for Mint Field’s upcoming fall tour dates in Mexico. The somewhat scattered run of 11 shows starts this month in Mérida and finishes in December with a performance at Wilco’s Sky Blue Sky Festival, followed by two more shows opening for Wilco in Mexico City and Guadalajara.
Aprender a Ser is due out October 27 via felte.
Mint Field 2023 Mexico tour dates
October 21 - Mérida, Yucatán - Salon Gallos
October 28 - Mexico City - Museo del Chopo
November 3 - Pachuca, Hidalgo - Casa Padi
November 4 - Puebla, Puebla - Musa Cultural Visual
November 9 - Guadalajara, Jalisco - Redrum Foro
November 11 - Mexico City - Sueño Despierto Festival
November 24 - Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua - El Anexo
November 25 - Delicias, Chihuahua - Casa De Cultura
December 2–6 - Riviera Maya, MX - Wilco’s Sky Blue Sky Festival
Decemer 8 - Mexico City, MX - Teatro Angel Peralta *
December 10 - Guadalajara, MX - Teatro Diana *
* opening for Wilco