VIDEO PREMIERE: Custard - 'Heart Attacks'

Aussie rockers Custard are back with a ripping new music video, Heart Attacks, with the single pulled from their latest album, Suburban Curtains. Today, the music video for Heart Attacks exclusively premieres on The Music.

Starring a cast of individuals in costumes and masks – from clown masks to wacky gothic outfits, army costumes, and colourful suits for the Bonfire Boys – the music video is as entrancing as the song’s classic rock energy.

People walk down streets, holding signs and lit torches, and make it to a beach area. There, they light a series of wooden containers on fire. The crowd looks on in wonder as the fire rises.

Directed by Andrew Lancaster and produced by Noni Couell, the band’s new music video was brought to life with help from the Hastings Borough Bonfire Society. The clip explodes in a flurry of bonfires, martyrs, effigies, Guy Fawkes and imagined gunpowder plots. It needs to be seen to be believed.

In a statement, the band said of the track: “The heart attacks our grumbling world with a bullion of compassion and love. Tap into the rush of it all and swell in the glow.”

Dave McCormack elaborated, “This song deals with the gradual unfolding of time. You always assume there will be one more gig; one more day ahead of us, but eventually, we are gone. Right now, everything is alright, but what is around the corner? A car crash, tinnitus? Basically, take every day as a bonus; don’t let things slip away.”

You can check out the music video below.

Custard, an Aussie music 90s favourite, reformed in 2009 and released another four albums since getting back together.

In 2015, the band dropped their first album since 1999’s Loverama with Come Back, All Is Forgiven. The Common Touch followed in 2017, followed by The Band Live In The Basement in 2018, and Respect All Lifeforms in 2020.

Suburban Curtains was released last month. In a recent interview with The Music, Custard’s Glenn Thompson and Dave McCormack reflected on the band’s career – particularly, their reformation – and recalled being “stunned” when all the pieces came together.

Thompson said, “I just said, ‘This is amazing. This just sounds like Custard!’ Because I’d played in different bands and David had played in different bands, Paul had played in different bands, Matthew had - we all had, and they sound nothing like Custard - but it's just the combination of us being together, and whatever we do, it just sounds that way.”

You can listen to Suburban Curtains here.