Blink-182 return from the back of the Best Buy bargain bin with an overhead projector presentation, Local Natives take to the concrete LA jungle streets with that same projector weapon, CHVRCHES prove they’re slowly turning into cartoon characters and more in the 23rd week of Best Lyric Vids.
Local Natives – ‘Villainy‘
A little non-sensical for the first taste of LP3, three years outside of 2013’s Hummingbird, with cryptic foreboding wails about adjusting the eyes in the sunlight and never-caught red handers, but as a complete package it’s a welcome trip from the LA indie-statesmen, going for this Killers kind of urban concrete desert vibe, projecting narratives on SoCal warehouses and cars like some adventure in urban sprawl wasteland:
Blink-182 – ‘Rabbit Hole‘
All the staples here that made them Best Buy $9.99 bin CD stars back in the day, the careening pop-punk anthemics, the youthful placed swear, Slurpee-tossing power-chords, except this time with a sense of humor about their fading relevancy and a sweet aesthetic here with the over-head projector text supercut. Carry on, Blinksters:
Shearwater – ‘Pale Kings‘
Crossing the stadium rafter-reaching Edge-ian guitars with the Frightened Rabbits‘ Scottish barn yearn, it’s always been a curiosity as to how such a band could be from Austin, but they’re on Sub Pop for some reason, and here it appears to be their ability to find that shimmering glimmer of pop within just about any heavy-hearted narrative, an ‘irrational life’ not withstanding. The 2D pop art animation works with with the etcha-sketch font:
CHVRCHES – ‘Bury It‘
It appears CHVRCHES are devolving into some bizarro twee version of themselves where they soundtrack video-games and display themselves as cartoons. Let’s blame it Paramore collaborating here. And whoever’s idea it was for this cheesy as freeze frame of CDs being tossed into the cartoon abyss:
Stereophonics – ‘Mr and Mrs Smith‘
Same story here — what the hell happened to the ashy swag yearn of “Maybe Tomorrow” bygone days? Sounds like John Mellencamp got shitfaced in Wales and puked all over a little ditty about Jack and Diane. To that effect, here’s a perfect powerpoint presentation of that narrative put through what can only be described as a VCR filter:
