The concept behind the Jacqueline Castel-directed video for "Easy Answers," the opening track on These Are Powers' All Aboard Future, is more interesting than the song itself:
The video [...] was jointly inspired by the annual Ghost Festival held every August in China and the Chinese folkloric tradition of burning joss paper after the death of a relative or loved one. Joss paper has long been burned ceremoniously as an offering to the dead, representing all of the worldly goods that spirits may desire in the afterlife, including intricately detailed miniature paper replicas of mansions, BMW convertibles, laptop computers, karaoke VCRs, and large denomination hell bank notes or ghost money ... [For] lost spirits who still roam the land of the living, small paper boats and lanterns are bought and released, which signifies giving direction to these restless ancestors.
The Brooklyn/Chicago post-new/no wave trio's interpretation of said tradition involves more camera pointing and mugging than the annual Chinese Ghost Festival.
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All Aboard Future is out via Dead Oceans.
