Love, BB drops ‘Idle Moments’ song with darkly comic video

This announcement reports that Love, BB drops its version of Idle Moments along with a darkly comic video. The band reimagines Grant Green’s iconic instrumental by adding original lyrics and flute. The release arrives November 13. The noir-inspired video shows bad decisions, double-crosses and one very unlikely survivor. Brooke Backman sings Leviton’s lyrics while Matt Bauder plays flute on the recording captured live to tape.

This announcement supplies background on the song’s personal connection to Michael Leviton. Long before lyrics existed a young Leviton brought the CD to his crush’s house planning to play it, request a slow dance and observe the outcome. Dancing took place yet romance did not. Leviton recovered from the crush but retained lasting attachment to the piece. It is true that Leviton never got over the song and always thought someone should sing it. The announcement states the decades-long fascination now receives a voice through the new recording.

This announcement describes the lyrical themes and arrangement details. Leviton wrote lyrics inspired by the title after bandmate Brooke expressed interest in singing. The words examine what role idle moments could play in a life. Depression is idle. Passing out from drunkenness is idle. Is death just an endless series of idle moments? Backman delivers the vocals and Bauder trades saxophone for flute. The live-to-tape performance creates a smoky atmospheric dimension with beatnik sensibility where work is square, idleness is hip and there may be something suspicious going on in the next room.

This announcement outlines the concept and inspiration for the music video drawn from heist films. Leviton holds particular affection for the stretch after the robbery when criminals wait in a hideout and personalities ruin everything. I like stories of perfect plans foiled by human stupidity and insecurity. Those movies resonate with my general worldview; my life is full of metaphorical failed heists. The video realizes this outlook through bad decisions, double-crosses and a shrinking cast of characters. The song’s noirish spy-film atmosphere prompted creation of the video.

This announcement covers video production elements including cast reunion and the King Creole reference. The project reunites the cast from a prior Love, BB effort with dancer and actress Kitty Verte returning in a new role and costume. Drawing from the Elvis film King Creole where a noir plot accommodates the star singing and dancing, Leviton devised a caper that supplies Verte a reason to dance amid the criminal events. The resulting video places Verte’s dance sequence inside the proceedings of the shrinking cast and double-crosses.

This announcement situates the band’s artistic identity and place in its discography. Love, BB describes itself as ghosts of a jazz era that may or may not have existed and makes music that feels like forgotten standards awaiting rediscovery. Following the first two singles Solitaire and Those City Lights, Idle Moments advances that approach by locating an entirely different story inside a familiar piece. The track represents a new chapter in the catalog of songs that somehow feel as though they have always been there.