Big'n releases Arkansas Death Cult
The song "Arkansas Death Cult" opens side B of the Chicago noise rock band Big'n's most recent album, End Comes Too Soon, which was just made available on LP and digitally by Computer StudentsTM. Today, the band presents an exceptional music video for the song, which was created and edited by executive producer and director Jamie Fleischel.
The only creative direction he received from the band in regards to the video was: “It’s a pretty dark song, so the video should reflect that.” "And, well, slipping into a dark frame of mind has been pretty easy over these past couple of weeks. It certainly has felt like this place is fucked," commented Jamie.
Additionally, he stated: "Taking these cues, the video portrays cliched images of a late 1950s / early 1960s happy postwar American childhood and reimagines them as a portrait of despair. A group of kids ride their bikes around their leafy suburban neighborhood in what could be outtakes from Father Knows Best or Leave it to Beaver. Except, in this case, the children are monsters. They are disfigured, dead-eyed and menacing. Their world, created and curated by the adults, is one where Saturday morning cartoons are replaced by animated stories of depression, loneliness, addiction, and death. There’s no remorse of an innocence lost for these kids, as the uncaring cruelty inflicted upon them has become so commonplace it's now the norm. One by one, as the children meet their demise at the hands of reckless or indifferent adults, they are quickly forgotten, in a cartoonish flash. There are no consequences or lessons learned, just a promise the same process of anguish playing out again and again. This is a place that is, indeed, fucked."
You can watch the music video for "Arkansas Death Cult" here :
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