Modest Mouse's lead single from its new album Strangers to Ourselves, "Lampshade on Fire," is a haunting song (albeit an awesome one). So, of course, it's only right that the track would get a pretty eerie music video. Today (March 20), just days after the LP's release date, the band finally dropped the visual for "Lampshades on Fire," and it's a terrifying nightmare of a house party.
The chaotic music video features quick cut scenes of bizarre and somewhat troubling circumstances of what appears to be a Modest Mouse house show gone away. Opening up with cars pulling up to a home in the woods, a little girl puts gauze and bandages on a woman's bruised and slightly bloody face. Other horrow movie scenes come and go: a youth standing on railroad tracks, a girl oddly swinging on a tree in the woods and there's tons of ritualistic face painting.
There are needles in faces, people drinking from red cups, a mouse trap on the tongue, streakers and, for good measure, Orange is the New Black's Natashe Lyonne with her eyes rolled back and occasionally getting threatened with a gun. 'Cause why not?
When smoke isn't coming in and out of people's mouths, Modest Mouse is playing at this insane gig. Whatever. It is Modest Mouse after all...
Watch the new music video for Modest Mouse's "Lampshade on Fire" from Strangers to Ourselves below:
"Lampshades on Fire" is the lead single from Modest Mouse's first new album in eight years, Strangers to Ourselves. The album dropped on Tuesday, March 17.
