Springbok Nude Girls ramp up the hype for their next album with an utterly bonkers video for “Emerging Submarines”, the band’s latest single.
Taken from their upcoming album Partypocalypse – set for release on the 3rd of September via Mongrel Records – “Emerging Submarines” starts off with a frantic riff courtesy of guitarist Theo Crous that leads into a layered, revolutionary song defined by its ceaselessly infectious militaristic bite and Arno Carstens’ unnervingly deadpan delivery.
The video, and you’ll have to excuse my language here, is absolutely bat-shit. Shot at the studio of renowned artist and sculptor Lionel Smit – who directed and edited the production on top of handling the camera-work – it takes the form of a frenetic, fast-cut performance video which all sounds pretty standard but for the visuals superimposed over it.
In what can only be described as a psychedelic trip gone awry Carstens and co. find themselves submerged under all sorts of aquatic anarchy as tripped-out jellyfish and sharks head off on a mission fraternise with the nightmare-fuel that exists in the depths of our oceans.
“Emerging Submarines” is a lot to take in on every level. The song itself feels like a descent down an anarchic rabbit-hole while the video could potentially, with the right (or wrong) chemicals, be a one-way trip into another dimension.
