You know who loves Dr. Dog? Every single person who goes to see them live. And Band of Horses, who saw their video on Subterranean once and then told the New York Times about it (as did Wilco). And My Morning Jacket, who got their demo and then asked them to open for them on tour. And us because they are really hilarious gentlemen.
This video was directed by Adam Kurland and Panoptic Gary Breslin (not so much on Breslin, as it turns out - he ended up not getting a video credit…drama! and we’ve given up on understanding wtf is going on here!), whose treatment for it starts in boldface with this sentence: A love story between a man’s head and his own body. The two reference this scene from the movie “Holy Mountain” is the sort of gore-filled spectacle that inspired them, but ultimately they didn’t take it that far for this music video. They also, very clearly, drew inspiration from the look and feel of “The Science of Sleep,” although the video has far more visual effects on it than Michel Gondry would use - the same lethargic, surreal vibe swaddles it.
