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Ratatat's usual vamping guitar licks calm down and go to the beach in "Pricks of Brightness," the latest track from their July release, Magnifique. Director Luis Cerveró tucks the band into a string of morose parties attended by children dressed in military garb, poolside sirens, and bearded lady hipsters. Bearded or bedazzled art students present their paintings while a lone graffiti artist methodically paints the town in, well, pricks. Cerveró admits that this is his first video for an instrumental song, but steers into the skid with a fusion of silent comedy and Instagram-ready framing."On one hand, the idea was to reflect the issue of how important a clear message is in any artistic output, and what is left when you want to communicate but you can't use words to do so," he writes in his video's Vimeo description. "On the other, we gave central importance to the mathematical and structural side of the video, building a piece that is made of seven elements repeated seven times in the exact same order, time, and pace, to show how time and perception change when put against a music track that doesn't follow the same structure."Cerveró hails out of the Spanish arm of visual arts company, CANADA, who recently put out the excellent video for Tame Impala's "The Less I Know the Better." "Pricks of Brightness," has a similar flavor: smooth-as-silk camera movements frame vacuum-packed characters pristine in their manicured, youthful poses. Check out the cornucopeia of ace set design, atypical narrative structure—oh, and knife to hand action—below.
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