Video: Of Montreal: "Gronlandic Edit"
"Where are we?" one of the Beatles asks in the Yellow Submarine film right before "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds". "I don't know-- it looks like the foothills," John Lennon replies. "The foothills of what?" "The foothills of the headlands." That's about where the video for "Gronlandic Edit", from Of Montreal's Best New Music'd Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?, starts off, too. The song transports baroque psychedelic harmonies into 21st-century ennui, talking about "bitches" and "indie star[s]" over a taut bass line. The animated clip, produced by David Barnes and Nico Danger, similarly updates the drug-friendly cartoons of the 1960s and 70s with lushly animated, half-human, half-beast creatures and modern-day references. Any trip that includes Dick Cheney is a bad trip, though, man.
[from Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?; out now on Polyvinyl]