by Bill Pearis
Destroyer‘s “Times Square,” the centerpiece track to new album Poison Season, has now been turned into a charmingly weird music video. Director Shayne Ehman says the video started with an ill-fated trip to New York. “We ended up just wandering around New York til 3am and the city seemed completely dead. We could have been anywhere, really,” which then put them on a different track. “I needed to get outside and shoot in natural light in order to serve as a sort of conduit for those ‘forces of nature in love…’ which seem to rule the song. I let the sun do its thing and let the earth do it’s thing and watched time unfold. I watched the clouds unfold and unpack and packup. I was at their mercy, completely.”
There’s the briefest of shots from the NYC tourist mecca, but most of the video takes place in the forrest where magical woodland beings smoke dope from a saxaphone, lick mushrooms and get weird. Also: a little Dan Bejar lip-synching. Watch it below.
Catch Destroyer on tour this fall. Tickets are still available for the NYC show at Webster Hall on October 4.
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