Ceremony - “Your Life In France” (Official Video)

On their new album The L-Shaped Man, the great California hardcore band Ceremony leave hardcore behind entirely, replacing it with dark and heavy Joy Division-style postpunk. We’ve already heard “The Separation” and “The Understanding,” and now the band has shared the video for another new song, the driving and flinty “Your Life In France.” Dustin Aksland directed the scratchy, noirish black-and-white video, in which band frontman Ross Farrar broodingly chain-smokes in his apartment and wanders abandoned nighttime city streets alone.