Video: Dirty on Purpose: "Car No Driver"
Back in 2006, Pitchfork's Zach Baron said "Car No Driver" was the "most Williamsburg moment" of Dirty on Purpose's debut album, Hallelujah Sirens. The track's video, however, looks more Midwest than Brooklyn, unless there's some secret pocket of the borough with corn fields and spirit line girls we've never been to.
This clip, which feels like the video Sufjan Stevens should have made, was directed by Andrew Zuchero for Greencard Pictures, and plays with frame rates so that it moves something like Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer". A few inexplicable things happen throughout-- the band and a group of locals make robot heads out of cardboard, then they make something else (a windmill?) out of wood, and finally, a piano is catapulted into the clear blue sky. But, "It feels right," they sing light as clouds, and the band's so calm you believe it.
Video: > Dirty on Purpose: "Car No Driver"
[from Hallelujah Sirens; out now on North Street Records]