Caleb Nichols Released Video For “Demon Twink”

Queer poet and singer/songwriter Caleb Nichols has released the video for “Demon Twink“, the first single off his upcoming album, “Let’s Look Back“, which will be released via Kill Rock Stars on October 13. Additionally, Nichols announces a run of performances in the UK for August.

Caleb Nichols put himself on the map with Ramon in 2022, a critically acclaimed queer Beatles rock opera. Now, he’s tackling something of a more radical proposition — just 11 great songs, full stop.

“Demon Twink” is an unstoppable power-pop rocket. “I wanted it to be this big, blasty, power-pop, kiss-off kind of song,” Nichols says. The chorus vacillates between “Yeah, yeah, yeah,” and “Oh no,” which underlines the conflicted emotions upon jettisoning a toxic love interest.

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“We wanted to make a lyrics video that would bring to life the textured, medieval collage pieces that we’ve used as album art for “Let’s Look Back” and for our last pair of EPs (Chan Says and She Is Not Your Shadow),”Nichols explains. “Aaron Kroeger, our director and also live drummer, animated and colorized the art in a lovely, clever way. The giant black blob I’m standing is a key symbol for this cycle of songs, and it’s fun and sort of gross to watch it drip! I don’t want to say much about the black blob, but perhaps it’s representative of either a sort of temporality which is always lurking beneath the surface of things? Maybe the blob is a representation of the unified field, where all thoughts and ideas spring from? Maybe these are the same thing? I have been watching a lot of Twin Peaks, so I guess my mind is stuck in the black lodge.”

Upcoming tour dates

11 August — London, Cavendish Arms

20 August — Birkenhead, Birkenhead Arts Palace

25 August — Belfast, The American Bar

26 August — Glasgow, Ushi’s (Weekender)

27 August — Glasgow, Ushi’s (Weekender)

28 August — Edinburgh, Typewronger