Los Angeles Post-Punk Duo DECEITS Face Birthday Dread in Their Video for “The First Day of Fall”

Los Angeles post-punk duo DECEITS—vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Kevin Moreno and drummer Francisco Saenz—released a video for “The First Day of Fall,” directed by Shutter Visual. Moreno composed the track on a despondent morning before his birthday, wrestling with suicidal ideation as social expectation to celebrate collided with his emotional state. The song pairs punk-driven rhythm section work and gothic synthesizers with wounded romantic melody, Moreno’s vocals ranging from intimate to strained. The video, shot in a minimalist gridded room lit in blue-green tones, frames performance close-ups and fragmented imagery—white roses scattered on the floor, doubled faces, blurred movement—that externalize the emotional instability described in the lyrics. The production emphasizes the gap between public birthday convention and private suffering.

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