Music Video Review
While perusing my favourite ex-colleagues music and technology based column, Riot Gear, I stumbled across a review of a band I’d never heard of, called Dirty Projectors. Intrigued, I did a little digging.
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So here’s the official video for “Stillness Is The Move” - a video that added heavily to the Beta Band element in my imagined metaphorical smashup. In the vid they’re up a hill, the main man is alternatively leading some sort of yak-type animal around, or standing on a rotating platform playing a vintage/ethnic stringed guitary sort of thing. I’d call it a zither, but I googled zither and confirmed it’s not one. It still sounds a bit zithery though.
Anyway, while he’s playing the non-zither or leading the possibly-a-yak around, the three girls are singing like good things - either dressed in a white wraparound thingy and bridesmaid type dresses (not necessarily a bad thing), or medical-coloured MC-hammer cut overalls. The possibly-a-yak pops it’s head up about 70 seconds in like it’s wondering what the hell is going on. I know how it feels. There’s a kind of wolf thing that appears - in fact there’s more than one, and ultimately the girls end up taking the wolves for a bit of a run in the MC-hammer overalls.
It’s great. I have absolutely no idea what any of it means, but the more you listen and watch, the better it gets.
from the music review blog “unknown unknowns”
