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We don't know exactly what's going on in the new video by Texan experimental savants Polyphia, but we're 100% here for it.
It's pretty widely regarded, at least by the band, that Polyphia's music is the greatest sonic innovation since Turkey In The Straw. But now the Dallas, Texas, quartet have decided that Earth alone isn't enough for them, and in the mind-blowing new video for their track Look But Don't Touch featuring Los Angeles-based singer Lewis Grant, they decide to conquer Heaven, Hell, the Weed Cosmos, and network TV in what feels like a mugging of the subconscious.
The video, featuring one of the band's patently crunchy jams played to rhythms the human brain wasn't meant to comprehend, starts pretty much as you imagine it: the band see the light, and go to a paradise filled with strippers, cocaine, and neon wieners. But when an angel feeds the dudes a bad batch of detergent pods, things go horribly awry. All of this occurs in the first minute of the video, which gives you a pretty good idea of how the rest of it turns out.
Watch Polyphia's Look But Don't Touch below and secretly worry this band is reading your mind:
Polyphia's New Levels New Devils is out now on Equal Vision Records.
If your brain hasn't melted and dripped out of your ears while watching that video, you can catch the band live on their headlining tour, which kicks off tonight in New Orleans.
April 2019
1 - New Orleans, LA @ The Parish House of Blues
2 - Tallahassee, FL @ The Wilbury
3 - Tampa, FL @ The Orpheum
4 - Fort Lauderdale, FL @ Culture Room
5 - Jacksonville, FL @ Mavericks Live
6 - Charlotte, NC @ The Underground
7 - Nashville, TN @ The Cowan
9 - Richmond, VA @ The Broadberry
10 - Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Soundstage
11 - New York, NY @ Gramercy Theatre
12 - Asbury Park, NJ @ House of Independents
13 - Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
14 - New Haven, CT @ Toad’s Place
15 - Rochester, NY @ Montage Music Hall
17 - Grand Rapids, WI @ The Pyramid Scheme
18 - Cincinnati, OH @ Southgate House Revival
19 - Indianapolis, IN @ The Citadel
20 - Bloomington, IL @ The Castle Theatre
22 - Boulder, CO @ Fox Theatre
23 - Salt Lake City, UT @ In The Venue
25 - Berkeley, CA @ Cornerstone Berkeley
26 - Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst Atrium
27 - Santa Ana, CA @ Observatory
28 - Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom
30 - Las Vegas, NV @ Fremont Country Club
May 2019
1 - Tucson, AZ @ 191 Toole
2 - Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad
4 - San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger
5 - Dallas, TX @ House of Blues