I’m currently on a plane heading overseas and I won’t be back for two weeks. Therefore, I figure I can get away with posting some weird things while I’m gone. That’s why I’m bringing you the video for “Tiny Bubbles” from punk/noise rock band Deerhoof. The video, which was directed by Geoff Hoskinson, is a weird animation that is reminiscent of what you might expect when you cross Monty Python with Adult Swim.
Drummer Greg Saunier explains how the video came to be:
It was a friend of Joyful Noise that got in touch with them and said he wanted to make a video, and the role that I played in this video was not to say no. I did not prevent this friend of Joyful Noise from making the video — I didn’t have any idea what it would be. I didn’t know the person — I still don’t. Never met them. So when this animated video arrived suddenly one day in my inbox and I watched this thing, I feel that the animator has not only understood the song and the words, but to a level that felt uncanny — you know sometimes you have that feeling where it’s like you meet someone and you’ve known them your whole life. And this kinda felt like that — like he seemed to nail the ethos of what we wanted to do with that song and with the whole record to such a T that it was like — sometimes it’s like an out-of-body experience. [Source]
“Tiny Bubbles” comes from the band’s latest album La Isla Bonita.