Rock/electronic/whatever you want to call them duo Ratatat may have just wrapped up a national Australian tour including appearances at Fairgrounds and Meredith music festivals, but it doesn’t look like they’ll be going away just yet- or at least leaving our computer screens at least. Currently touring their fantastic fifth album, Magnifique, the pair have now released a brand new video for their latest single, Pricks of Brightness.
Teaming up with director Luis Cerveró, this clip focuses on the “prick” of things; triangles and pyramids everywhere including on people’s heads, someone stabbing themselves with a knife, even a guy running around graffitiing “PRICK” all over the place. This all kind of makes sense, but then there are the other scenes; the kids in what looks like some ruins wearing red jumpsuits and holding machine guns, the room filled with models wearing moustaches, whatever the hell is going on in the room with everyone wearing masks- these make no sense.
The pair play in each setting, absolutely slaying on their guitars whilst backed by a rotating cast live drummers (a rare sight for a Ratatat performance, even in a video). All in all, it’s a beautifully shot clip albeit slightly confusing. You get the feeling you’ve just seen something really beautiful, but you’re not exactly sure what that something is.
For more Ratatat, you can check out our interview with one half of the pair, Mike Stroud, here and our review of Magnifique here.