A year ago, we introduced you to Bombay Beach, a project that is at once a band, an album and a movie. At this point, only the first two things actually exist—Death Tape, the trio's debut, is coming in July on drummer Jeremiah Hayden's Amigo/Amiga label—but the visual component is coming together. The video for "Thee Mote" is more art-film than narrative cinema, with a collage of seemingly disconnected images—distorted landscapes, city skylines, club scenes, cartoon close-ups—flickering to the band's writhing, noisy post-punk. Is it an oblique trailer for the film that ties it all together, or just a standalone psychedelic mindfuck? We don't yet know. But it's all intriguing enough to keep us guessing.
Bombay Beach "Thee Mote" from amigo amiga on Vimeo.
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