Pitchfork

There are at least a couple of disjunctures at play in Skeletons & the Kings of All Cities' video for "Sickness". The gurgling organ and Matt Mehlan's eunuch-croon emerge as punctuation for a randomly violent and pretty scary act, leading to the video proper. The clip jerks back and forth between harmlessly montaged out-the-car-window road trip footage and far-off sequences of, um silhouetted body disposal, as if the car's road trip coincided with the path of a serial killer. Maybe by choice, it's hard to tell; it's not like the surrounding countryside offers many other paths from here to there. I just assumed that Lucas focused more on the sort of sickness that alienated one from society, though; the kind that causes the mind to go into overdrive, spinning out elaborate fantasies and then...oh.