New Mercury Rev Video - "Butterfly's Wing"

The psychedelic Upstate New Yorkers in Mercury Rev focus on a cat with butterfly wings and a flying elephant (who can shoot fireworks out of his trunk) in their video for Snowflake Midnight's "Butterfly's Wing." But while the old "butterfly effect" saying uses China as an example, this clip focuses on a fantastical Japanese landscape complete with rice paper boats and jellyfish, twisty tree branches, dragonflies, kindly whales, and flower pedal rainstorms. Speaking of which: Forget about the butterfly effect; it was more likely mushrooms that started this storm.

(Via P4K.tv)

Continuing with this theme, keep in mind Snowflake's glossy, trippy "Senses On Fire."

Snowflake Midnight is out via Yep Roc.

Posted at 4:13 PM by brandon in Video
Tags: Mercury Rev

4 Comments

this is so badass

Posted by: bobert at 10/07/08 6:17 PM  | Reply
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fantastic vid! 5 stars

Posted by: vig at 10/08/08 1:23 AM  | Reply
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i miss mercury rev, really i do. i have to admit im tired of the butterflies and the mystical themed pieces.... maybe they could invite david baker back into the studio?

Posted by: tony at 10/08/08 7:28 AM  | Reply
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didn't these guys used to rock?

Posted by: zap at 10/08/08 3:22 PM  | Reply
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