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Sound Tracks: “I’m Still in the Wall” by DD/MM/YYYY
Believe it or not, music videos still exist. Sound Tracks trolls the internet to find the best and the worst of local artists’ new singles and the good, bad, or otherwise noteworthy visuals that accompany them.
The new DD/MM/YYYY video was practically tailor-made for the heyday of MuchMusic’s “alternative” video program The Wedge, which is to say it’s a weird and creative multimedia sensory overload. In short, it’s pretty amazing.
“I’m Still in the Wall” was directed by Toronto’s video artists Exploding Motor Car, who are better known for providing visual accompaniment at live shows but have also done eyeball-confusing/pleasing videos for the likes of Ohbijou and Reverie Sound Revue. The Motorists also turned Lee’s Palace into a creepy, awful place for Goin’ Steady’s sixth annual Monster Mash Halloween party, and if you happened to walk by Magic Pony (or look at pictures here), you can see a pile of their previous stuff displayed colourfully in the windows. What an October!
“I’m Still in the Wall,” a track from the band’s most recent spazz-something, post-everything album Black Square, features video wizardry that portrays the band trapped in the walls of Toronto, so to speak, traipsing a different, presumably oppressive dimension. They hang at skate parks, outside of Honest Ed’s, and eventually escape the unknown to don some new old threads at the Value Village at Bloor and Lansdowne. Hey, guys. Wash those first. Haven’t you heard we’re in the middle of a bedbug crisis?
