Home Video is one of those bands that on first listen, you think had come out of the UK, and then it turns out that they're really from New York. And then you try to Google the band name, but of course "home video" is a very broad and common term, so you don't get what you're looking for at first. When it comes to band comparisons, I should be the last person to ask, but if I had to describe the sound, it's like somnambulist electronic-tinged minimalistic rock.
I don't remember how I first heard about them, but I got a copy of their Citizen EP two years back and it being released on Warp was enough to grab my attention. Flash-forward two years later and their first full-length, No Certain Night Or Morning, almost escaped my radar. Now they're on Defend Music (which I am familiar with mostly for James Fucking Friedman's Go Commando compilation) and have a remix from 1/2 of the DFA guys (The Loving Hand aka Tim Goldsworthy), and I think they're worth the checking out, if you're in a dark and sinister mood.
"In A Submarine" is taken from the Citizen EP, not too representative of the Home Video sound as a whole, but still a fresh track.
Home Video - "In A Submarine"
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