It’s a rare sort of music video that can win a band a BTW, which makes TEEN’s exquisite clip for “Electric” a definitionally rare sort of video. To be clear, the band earned their hails last week on the back of a pair of eminently postable singles — i.e. “Better,” and the object of this post, the fantastic go-go psych pop of “Electric” — as well as an assured debut LP in In Limbo. But I saw a screening for the “Electric” video before hearing any of that, and was won over: from its smart psychedelic cinematographic tricks to its conceptual choreography, the video serves as a synergistic sound/visual mesh that’s a perfect portal to TEEN’s overarching aesthetic. It also speaks a lot to a band’s creative process when they know who to collaborate with to actualize a vision, as TEEN has here with directors Sam Fleischner (the filmmaker behind Norah Jones’s feature-length Wah Do Dem and Santigold’s “Disparate Youth“) and dance performance/dance artist Megha Barnabas. From Moire effects to Maya Deren movements, this is a proper pairing of imagery and physicality and you should watch:
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