Lol Tolhurst (The Cure), Budgie (Siouxsie & The Banshees) and Jacknife Lee release their debut album, Los Angeles, on November 3. Nearly track on the album is also a collaboration with a different artist, including LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy, Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie, Mary Lattimore, The Edge, and more. Today they’ve shared “We Got To Move” featuring Modest Mouse‘s Isaac Brock.
“We Got To Move” starts with the kind of tribal drumming Budgie brought to Siouxsie side project The Creatures, but quickly shifts into new wave-ish electro-rock with rolling synthesizers arpeggiations that the band say is a specific homage. “This is one of the more existential tracks on ‘Los Angeles.’ It’s an homage to Philip Glass, Ron Fricke and Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi, with words by Isaac Brock,” says Budgie.
“Isaac is one of the most unique voices that we have. He’s brilliant,” says Jacknife. “He gave us this weird, anxious, beautiful rush of a song. To pump up the duality within the song my daughters and I came up with a chorus that made us giddy with its ridiculousness. The song is absurd. The sound is absurd. And it’s about bugs.”
The video for “We Got to Move” was directed by Daniel Rashid, stars Fred Armisen, and was shot at LA’s Breakroom where you can throw axes and break stuff with sledgehammers. They break a lot of stuff in this video. Watch below.