Yeasayer – Ambling Amp (Pitchfork TV)

I can’t really think of a better way to polish off November on Bitter Fingers than with this new Yeasayer track. Ambling Amp has been available to download for free on their website for a while now, but the video’s only just emerged.

And oh boy, what a video. Mirror-masked riders! Mountain drummers! Electronic face goo! Naked people running everywhere with scant regard for the consequences! This, dear reader, is how you make a music video. Making sense shouldn’t be a pre-requisite for a promo video in my opinion, and it looks like Yeasayer agree with me.

The track itself is a delightfully bouncy electro piece, threatening to  come unhinged with a brilliant faux-saxophone (fauxophone?) solo right at the end just when you didn’t think it could get any more bizarre. One of the tracks of the year, no doubt.