Video: Underworld: "Crocodile"
Might need some performance-enhancing drugs for this one. Underworld's Pitchfork-premiered "Crocodile", from forthcoming album Oblivion With Bells, has dreamy synths and the trance-like qualities of the records that made the UK duo of Karl Hyde and Rick Smith into techno icons in the mid-1990s. The new video for the track homes in tightly on Hyde and Smith's faces, each shown in separate shots waving their heads back and forth, their eyes closed and their lips spread in beatific grins, while listening to ear buds. Multiple versions of the scene are superimposed upon each other, for a visual effect akin to the waves of echoes on Hyde's vocals. The lights change colors from red to blue to yellow, and for a second or two somebody's definitely wearing a silly hat.
Video:> Underworld: "Crocodile" (Quicktime)
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[from Oblivion With Bells; due 10/15/07 on Different]