Pitchfork

The Mike Ott-directed video for "Dancing on Our Graves", a song by Seattle's the Cave Singers, reflects the track's sense of abandon. The stomping bass drum shoves forward the rest of the clattering percussion, and the insistent guitar picking worries less about changes (for the most part, one chord'll do ya) and more about relentless motion. It also sounds a hair like something from the Waterboys' Fisherman's Blues, a plus in my book. The video, with its scuffed black-and-white shots of tent revival rituals (we see people clogging and testifying, being healed by a hand and baptized in a river), finds its participants moved less by the holy spirit and more by the undeniable propulsion of the song's groove.

 

[from Invitation Songs, out now on Matador]