Soupcans - "Parasite Brain" [music video] Review
Soupcans“Parasite Brain” [music video]
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SbRg7ixt4M
Toronto punk patrons, The Soupcans' brain-melting fury has recently unleashed itself onto our ears with the first EP since their 2012 release “Good Feelings”, and an accompanying music video for the track, Parasite Brain. You could say that the 6-track EP packs a mean punch; if you're grossly under-exaggerating and you're also hard of hearing. You can also just quote the band themselves who describe it as, “Six more tunes about mental problems, dental hygiene, futuristic dystopias and altered consciousnesses.”
Three guys walk into a bar and are met by a mischievous bartender who serves them a concoction of green-screened neon colour. They turn into zombie-like cannibals who turn on the bartender. The concept is a mixture between a day spent in front of Photobooth on your laptop, playing a sadistic game of Operation (the board game), and psychedelics. None of this sound bad to you? It's not. It's awesome.
Rather than using too much fake blood-- a major element in the video--they opt for post-production special effects. Splotches are hastily drawn all over the characters and filled-in with film footage close-ups of raw meat, organs and actual blood. It's an inventive alternative which makes this simple-concept video more ethereal. Handheld cameras and tastefully subversive gore elements (implicated, but not quite displayed as gore most of the time) parallels the chaotic, lo-fi track, perfectly titled, Parasite Brain.
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Toronto punk patrons, The Soupcans' brain-melting fury has recently unleashed itself onto our ears with the first EP since their 2012 release “Good Feelings”, and an accompanying music video for the track, Parasite Brain.
Zombie cannibals turn on the bartender who fed them a poisoned concoction of green-screened neon colour. The concept is a mixture between a day spent in front of Photobooth on your laptop, playing a sadistic game of Operation (the board game), and psychedelics. None of this sound bad to you? It's not. It's awesome.
Rather than using too much fake blood-- a major element in the video--they opt for post-production special effects. Splotches are hastily drawn all over the characters and filled-in with film footage close-ups of raw meat, organs and actual blood. Handheld cameras and gore elements parallel the chaotic, lo-fi track which is perfectly titled Parasite Brain.
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