In January Pedro The Lion surprise-released their new record Havasu in full. Today we get our first official music video for album favorite "First Drum Set" filmed in the city that inspired it all. Dave shares – “My oldest friend Cody Cloud and I drove out to Lake Havasu City and met up with my manager Bob, our dear friend Will, and his extremely rad kid Hazel to make a music video celebrating that strange & magical place and our collective love of drums & music."

Lake Havasu is a community of winding hillside roads, launched in the 1960s alongside a brick-for-brick rebuild of the original London Bridge. “It’s this very synthetic, gimmicky place set in this soulful, desolate landscape,” laughs Pedro The Lion's David Bazan, who moved to the Arizona city for one year in seventh grade. Bazan collected his earliest childhood experiences for 2019’s Phoenix, the prolific artist’s celebrated return to the Pedro moniker and the first in a planned series of five records chronicling his past homes. 

To write its sequel, Bazan traveled to Havasu four times over several years, driving past his junior high campus, a magical skating rink, and other nostalgic locations that evoked feelings long suppressed. "First Drum Set" faithfully chronicles Bazan’s lifesaving switch from clarinet to drums, builds the explosive jubilation of musical self-discovery into triumphant fills, like a throbbing heartbeat overflowing with love. Watch below. 

The band's US tour begins tonight in Kansas City with support from labelmates Oceanator - tickets for all upcoming shows onsale now.