Unknown Mortal Orchestra: That Life – Remember Muppet Show?

“I saw this painting by Hieronymus Bosch called The Garden of Earthly Delights and in the painting there was a mixture of crazy stuff going on, representing heaven, earth, and hell. When I was writing this song, “That Life,” I was imaging the same kind of “Where’s Waldo” (or “Where’s Wally” as we call it in New Zealand, Australia, and the UK) of contrasting scenes and multiple characters all engaged in that same perverse mixture of luxury, reverie, damnation, in the landscape of America. Somewhere on holiday under a vengeful sun” said Unknown Mortal Orchestra mastermind Ruban Nielson.
Video is directed by Lydia Fine and Tony Blahd and starring a dancing blue puppet created by puppeteer and fabricator Laura Manns (The Muppets and Sesame Street) and it looks pretty nostalgic for the Jim Hensons charachters era – that life, someone will remember. Catch little indie tune, not revolutionary, but why it should had to be. (Claire Foicant)
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