Pitchfork

Summer officially ended last week, but no need to pack away the Sea and Cake records just yet. A new video for Everybody's "Coconut" has arrived along with one last bit of warm weather here in Chicago. I wrote elsewhere that while Harry Nilsson didn't write this version of "Coconut", he probably would have liked it. The song defines the bright, airy, supremely easeful sound the Sea and Cake do better than anybody, and after "Crossing Line", it's my favorite track on the record. The video features none of the band and not much in the way of the physical world. Instead, it's one long, slow pan across an insanely dense collage of lo-bit, tossed-off, trash-pop imagery. With dozens of items in each frame blinking wildly, there's just too much going on to describe; in terms of design, it's the exact opposite of the Sea and Cake's music. But it goes so far in that direction it almost winds up meeting the song on the other side, and the visual assault becomes oddly lulling.