Video premiere: Keli Holiday, ‘Where You Feel’

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Keli Holiday (Photo by Ben Goodman)

There are bon vivants and party animals, and then there is the “I’ll-have-whatever-he’s-having-wherever-he’s-having-it” type. Magnets for good times.

With that, meet Keli Holiday and schedule your next party to start whenever anybody presses play on his second single, “Where You Feel.”

The solo project of L.A.-dwelling Australian Adam Hyde of EDM giants Peking Duk, Keli Holiday started as a holiday that wasn’t. During a break from touring, Hyde eschewed going on an actual vacation and instead dusted off an old guitar. He wrote a dozen songs in a month’s time, the demos making their way to Thomas Stell (aka Golden Features) and then, eventually, to Kim Moyes of the Presets. Working under his production moniker K.I.M., Moyes helped Hyde give the tracks a bristling effervescence.

Keli Holiday debuted early this year with the similarly sunny “We Don’t Have to Know” — which Hyde called “the soundtrack to a Southern Californian kick on. The drums are smacking, the guitar is popping and the sun is shining. I had so much fun writing and recording this song as I had just moved to L.A. and the energy in the studio that day was right. Every time I press play on it, it takes me to that place — to a fun place. A place we all deserve to be. Long live the holiday.”

“Where You Feel” (officially out on Friday in advance of a full-length planned for this summer) is Part 2, cheeky lyrics and all.

“‘Where You Feel’ is sweet Mexican cola in a song, it’s the sweat dripping from your cheeks, it’s day drinking in the streets of sunny California,” Hyde says. “The song was born on a sunny day in Los Angeles. I recorded the guitar chords and it felt right, without an ounce of force.

“I wrote this song with a very talented fellow Australian — Alex Lahey. I added the salt and she added the sugar.”

The video, directed by Taylor Bonin (The Growlers, The Garden, among others), follows Hyde through Venice Beach as he boogies down the boardwalk and downs a chocolate-covered banana. “I came up with the idea of a run-and-gun style shoot where I belt the song out of a speaker whilst singing and dancing along the Venice boardwalk,” Hyde says. “He loved the idea and nailed it.”

You’ll want to tag along, because it’s quite possible that wherever Keli Holiday feels is where summer actually commences.

||| Watch: The video for “Where You Feel”

||| Also: Watch the video for “We Don’t Have to Know”