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LVR | Kate Malanaphy & Goodnight Gorillas

Hey, look! Is it a new column? Not quite! Doing things that are completely original is exceedingly overrated. Sometimes, more than one video comes out in a week. Sometimes, we want to write about some of them. Lo and behold, we're the Current City Pages trying a Local Video Round-up. 


Kate Malanaphy - "Glue" video

Kate just released her latest EP (it's real good!) and now her first video is out, for Soak's lead single "Glue." The video was done by Lilacs Media, the duo of Charlie Berg (director) and Garrett Wells (DP). It's a very heavy affair, curtains giving each background shadow plenty of room to run. About halfway in, pale blue becomes a menacing yellow as shadows loom over Malanaphy. The song gradually intensifies with the palette shift.

It's a fitting video for the melancholy of the song, shot beautifully. Good videos elevate the art of the song they accompany, and "Glue" does just that.



Goodnight Gorillas - "Phase One" video


In the span of just two videos, Goodnight Gorillas has covered the entire spectrum of music video ideas. Last time, it was a single-take celebrity-guest-star concept about routers and Wi-Fi. Now, we've arrived at trippy black-and-white head-spinners about coping with the end of a relationship.


Shot by Josh Garcia at the Parallel Cafe, "Phase One" is about as stark as its lighting. The band collapses onto a couch and each other; Joe loses his mind and ends up upside-down. Even with the brutal emotions of the lyrics, there's an inherent comedy in seeing all four members of the band rolling around on top of each other like a multi-limbed blob trapped on a too-small couch. Plus, there's the part where the band gets their makeup done and they subsequently flirt with the camera. Quality of the video aside, Jake has the best wink and props to Joe for trying for the Puss-In-Boots face.

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