Video: Fever Ray, “Seven”
Fever Ray continues her streak of slightly goth, contemporary art-inspired videos with “Seven,” possibly the least goth of any song on her transcendent debut. Here, an elderly woman dressed in a glittery tiara lip syncs in the middle of a sheep farm. No biggie! The plot seems to be about a fallen circus-show princess (purely basing that on her wolf-faced rhythm section) who’s trying to recapture her past, the sole audience a pack of cattle, her glory eternal even without any royal proscenium. Or it could be about some exiled witch razing something—but that’s the glory of the Fever Ray video, they’re esoteric and crafty enough to provoke thought, not just some dude in a band with guitar-string and crotch closeups. (via Gorilla vs. Bear)
Video: Jokers of the Scene, “Baggy Bottom Boys”
Fool’s Gold pranksters Jokers of the Scene have been going through a “blue period,” if you will, making gothy mixes and having a general aura of doom about them, but this video might be their transition into another stage of artistry. Namely, muted piano tech, sparklers and ravers with a healthy dose of geometric animation that conjures the illuminati. And considering the massive amount of SICK sci-fi movies slated for the next six months, now would be a fairly zeitgeistical time to get in on that—some metaphysical happening at a club party might make for a good plot point. What was that vampire movie with a scene at a crazy rave, where the lights went out and a rain of blood gushed out of the fire sprinklers? Anyway, half this video is twitchy like a gif, and they’ve also got a new remix EP.
