Male Bonding - Tame The Sun

What this video is

Released in September 2011 as the lead single from Male Bonding's sophomore Sub Pop album Endless Now, 'Tame The Sun' emerged from the fertile DIY noise-rock scene centred in Dalston, East London. The band were part of a broader early-2010s wave of UK acts consciously reviving 1980s post-hardcore and 1990s lo-fi alt-rock textures, drawing comparisons to Hüsker Dü and early Dinosaur Jr. The music video's handmade…

Why it matters

Emblematic of the 2008–2012 UK lo-fi noise-pop revival, Male Bonding helped position Dalston as a credible DIY indie hub on the international Sub Pop roster. 'Tame The Sun' and its video document the genre's self-aware relationship with analog nostalgia, DIY craft culture, and anti-commercial…