For an indie band with only one album, Unknown Mortal Orchestra sure have a lot of videos: “Little Blu House,” “Ffunny Ffriends,” “Bicycle,” “Thought Ballune,” “Strangers Are Strange.” Now, there’s another one, for “Nerve Damage.” The creepy low-budget sci-fi clip involves neon skulls, glowing eyes, and empty gas cans, and the Repo Man flashbacks it [...]
Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Strangers Are Strange from Pharm on Vimeo. As the Unknown Mortal Orchestra go on tour with Girls (see tour dates here), they’re now sharing their brand new video for “Strangers Are Strange”, and if it’s as out there as their last video, you’ll love it. I do.
Prediction: Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s “Strangers Are Strange” will do for the 70s PI genre what the Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage” did for the 70s cop genre.
Unknown Mortal Orchestra sings about escapism from the everyday familiar in “Strangers are Strange,” quantified in the lyrics “It’s fun to pretend that we are strangers/so we can be strange/like strangers are strange.” The group has just released an equally quirky video for the track that looks like something out of Wes Anderson’s portfolio. Actually [...]
Check out the new video from the self-titled album.
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Sounds like:
Captain Beefheart, Animal Collective, Pattern Is Movement
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Strangers Are Strange
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Unknown Mortal Orchestra has released a video for their track “Strangers Are Strange” this past weekend, and at first, I was speechless. Show More Summary
Unknown Mortal Orchestra premiered the official video for "Strangers Are Strange" earlier today. The video was directed by Sam Kristofsk and can be viewed in this post.
Never strangers to an odd video concept, Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s new clip for “Strangers Are Strange” involves a highly-stylized, excessively amateur stakeout. Watch the Sam Kristofski-directed clip down below. Unknown Mortal Orchestra is out now on Fat Possum.
Wes Anderson-approved. Probably.