This video has been floating around for a few weeks YouTube style, but we still figured you kids want some downloadable goodness. So check it out again, download it for the first time, or just wait until Videoteque bites our style1. Your call.
Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s are absolutely obsessed with cats. In fact, a ghost holding a red pussy cat introduced me to the band in the first place, so I should have known right then. The chorus for the song Paper Kitten Nightmare is “meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow” which is promptly followed by French murmuring. I am not joking. Even more crazy is that it’s a damn fine track. Overall the band is defined by a reserved energy, coming across as if they are at all times planning to assault you, but they change their mind at the last moment, sigh, and play some horns and violins. Some electric guitar swagger does seep out occasionally, as in the current track of video focus Quiet as a Mouse, but most of the time it’s standing in the corner and staring at their shoes. In the end, distinguished music critics agree: they sound chill.
When Margot and friends finally decide to come out of their shells, you end up with this: Cat War. The video is the result of painting a bunch of cats and then blending them in the Music Video Animation Machine™. Stacy Novak is to blame for the images, and thus to blame for the awesome. Thankfully the video does a nice job of truly feeling like a painting rather than a demo for video production software. Still, the overall approach and cat focus is eerily similar to our last installment of pussy-themed musicana, although there’s a bit more plot here. Basically cat-pirates decide to kick some mouse-human ass. With swords. Cats with swords. Seeing a painted cat run at the camera while holding a sword action-movie style is the greatest thing since candy. You do like candy, don’t you? Either way Dr. Candy is gonna-give-it-to-you, so just relax and accept.
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The heart blood is so romantic. I’ve never really been too fond of cats and this video reminds me why.
Reason 12 why I dislike cats. They’re bastards.