Chicago cult noise rock band Big’n drops a video for ‘Arkansas Death Cult’ from their latest album ‘End Comes Too Soon,’ out now via Computer Students™.
Big’n kicks off side B of their latest album ‘End Comes Too Soon’ with the ferocious ‘Arkansas Death Cult.’
Released on LP and digitally via Computer Students™, the track now gets a striking visual treatment. Directed and edited by executive producer Jamie Fleischel, the newly unveiled music video adds a gripping cinematic edge to the Chicago noise rock band’s raw intensity.
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.”
Order ‘End Comes Too Soon’ here.
Big’n Facebook / Instagram
Computer Students™ Official Website / Instagram
Big’n | Interview | New album, ‘DTS 25′