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January 14, 2008

New Polyphonic Spree Video - "We Crawl"

Tim DeLaughter's finally done it; his choral rock symphony officially has more Sections than it does members. And this here "Section 26 (We Crawl)" is the most personal yet, videographically anyway. By training home movie cameras on themselves in their individual, natural environs, the Polyphonic ones show themselves for maybe the first time as a multitude of monophonic folks, stripped of military fatigues and pastel robes, at their houses, with their puppies, hanging out on highway overpasses. It's heartwarming and totally humanizing, and probably less Brady Bunch than this screen cap suggests (well maybe except for the scenes from Juile and Tim's too-good-to-be-true homelife; that family's so adorable it's like we need to hit perezhilton just to regain our constant and treasured sense of cynicism). Last time Hal Samples meshed together the images, here the Spree men and women turned their footage in to filmmaker Dante Harper, who turned out a cute one. Watch it at jambase.

The Fragile Army is out on TVT.

The Polyphonic Spree - We Crawl video, directed by Dante Harper

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i think that was quite lovely. i heard a lot of slagging of the fragile army when it came out but i like it.

and who is the member sitting over the freeway? i don't keep with my spree members well enough...

Posted by: annie onymous at 01/14/08 9:57 AM | Reply
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Amazing!!! song - best on the LP.

Posted by: k at 01/14/08 10:17 AM | Reply
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Ya know, I just can't bring myself to like these guys. They creep me out big time. The band has to be a front for something else.

Posted by: Peter at 01/14/08 10:45 AM | Reply
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And here I always thought they were a cult.

Good way to start the morning.

Posted by: Luis at 01/14/08 10:46 AM | Reply
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this was good! Tim's house looks really cool as well.

Posted by: rachel at 01/14/08 10:50 AM | Reply
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so annoying

Posted by: funkyj at 01/14/08 11:26 AM | Reply
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Is Annie in this video?

Posted by: DragonForce at 01/14/08 5:03 PM | Reply
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