This song about teenagers in love now comes with a video featuring a troupe of monkeys performing experiments on our protagonist
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Apparently Cindy + Me, the new single from Brooklyn-based Vincent Cacchione, aka Caged Animals, is about a "crazed teenager in love, running away from home with the girl and some twisted view of the future. We've got her father tied up in the house, a smouldering corpse, we've got the cash." With a song that rich in detail, surely the video treatment writes itself? And yet, rather than capturing this spirit of escapism, director Carlos Lopez Estrada has created an 80s-style corporate film that shows poor Cacchione having all sorts of tests done on him by a troupe of monkeys – which seem to have escaped from the set of Basement Jaxx's Where's Your Head At? video. At one point they force feed him a banana-shaped pill that makes him hallucinate his girlfriend is getting amorous with one of his simian captors. Built around a sample from synthesiser-maverick and instrument inventor Raymond Scott's Cindy Electronium, the joyously sinister Cindy + Me is a mesh of backwards synths, squelchy beats and Cacchione's droll delivery that sets up his forthcoming second, as yet untitled album perfectly.
Cindy + Me is out on 17 June on Lucky Number. Reported by guardian.co.uk 18 hours ago.
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Apparently Cindy + Me, the new single from Brooklyn-based Vincent Cacchione, aka Caged Animals, is about a "crazed teenager in love, running away from home with the girl and some twisted view of the future. We've got her father tied up in the house, a smouldering corpse, we've got the cash." With a song that rich in detail, surely the video treatment writes itself? And yet, rather than capturing this spirit of escapism, director Carlos Lopez Estrada has created an 80s-style corporate film that shows poor Cacchione having all sorts of tests done on him by a troupe of monkeys – which seem to have escaped from the set of Basement Jaxx's Where's Your Head At? video. At one point they force feed him a banana-shaped pill that makes him hallucinate his girlfriend is getting amorous with one of his simian captors. Built around a sample from synthesiser-maverick and instrument inventor Raymond Scott's Cindy Electronium, the joyously sinister Cindy + Me is a mesh of backwards synths, squelchy beats and Cacchione's droll delivery that sets up his forthcoming second, as yet untitled album perfectly.
Cindy + Me is out on 17 June on Lucky Number. Reported by guardian.co.uk 18 hours ago.
