Bleachers just released the music video for their latest single ‘Merry Christmas, Please Don’t Call.’
The track is a quintessentially Bleachers take on a holiday song and a long-awaited fan favourite, which the band has continuously teased through live performances over the past two years. To accompany the song’s eagerly anticipated release, the new music video features the full band performing the track as snow cascades over them, covering the stage as well as their instruments.
‘Merry Christmas, Please Don’t Call’ arrives at the tail end of a massive year for the band; Bleachers, their self-titled fourth studio album, was released in March via new label Dirty Hit and met with serious critical acclaim, with Rolling Stone praising its “spiritual ecstasy that can only be attained through the platonic perfection of pop formula” and NME labelling the record as “a triumphant portrait of Antonoff’s talent and the band’s tight musical bond”. In October, they finished off their ‘From The Studio To The Stage’ world tour with their largest sold out headline show ever at New York’s iconic Madison Square Garden.
In the midst of this, they also found time to release ‘A Stranger Desired,’ a reimagined version of the band’s iconic debut album. In December, Bleachers will perform at Antonoff’s annual The Ally Coalition Talent Show, to cap a remarkable year.
Described as “anthemic, life affirming pop rock” by the New York Times, Bleachers are fronted by globally celebrated, eleven-time Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, musician, and producer, Jack Antonoff. Releasing their debut album ‘Strange Desire’ in 2014, the band have built a huge, passionate following across four studio albums, becoming renowned for their impressive live show and infectious camaraderie.
The band’s third album, ‘Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night’ took them to new heights, showcasing Antonoff’s immersive songwriting and, as Variety testified, his innate skill at “supersizing personal stories into larger-than-life pop anthems”. Both with Bleachers and as a songwriter and producer, Antonoff, who, in 2021, was credited by the BBC for having “redefined pop music”, has collaborated with the likes of Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey, Sabrina Carpenter, The 1975, Kendrick Lamar, Diana Ross, Lorde, St. Vincent, Florence + The Machine, Kevin Abstract and many more.
In February 2024 Antonoff won Producer of the Year (Non-Classical) at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards for an incredible third consecutive year, becoming only the second producer in history to win three years running. In May, he was recognised as one of the most influential people of 2024 on the prestigious annual TIME100 list.
