I'm not a big fan of "new" music (anything created after 1997) because I'm a music snob and try to look cool at parties. But a few groups have managed to sneak past my glorified sense of superiority and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are one of them.
I became enamored of them after listening to their second album Show Your Bones (2006) and since then have put them on regular rotation on by iPod.
But there's something about their song Sacrilege (from Mosquito out on April 16th) that makes me love them even more and their video for the song, starring British model/actress Lily Cole (The Moth Diaries) certainly intensifies that feeling.
Now the video, shot completely backwards, is chock-full of actors whose own story lines you would think would be particularly difficult to construct in a mere four minutes, but it manages to do so in a way that makes you appreciate the intensity, and Lily Cole's magnificent face is so startling that you can't take your eyes off her.
It truly is an epic example of storytelling and I will be watching it at least fifteen more times today.
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