| THE DECEMBERISTS - 'Calamity Song' music video. |
| Written by Shahlin Graves |
| Tuesday, 23 August 2011 13:23 |
 THE DECEMBERISTS have unveiled a music video for 'Calamity Song' - the third single to be released from the band's latest album, 'The King Is Dead'. Michael Schur - co-creator of TV show 'Parks and Recreation' - directed the video on location in Grant Park in Portland, Oregon. In an interview with NPR, The Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy said: "I wrote “Calamity Song” shortly after I’d finished reading David Foster Wallace’s epic Infinite Jest. The book didn’t so much inspire the song itself, but Wallace’s irreverent and brilliant humor definitely wound its way into the thing. And I had this funny idea that a good video for the song would be a recreation of the Enfield Tennis Academy’s round of Eschaton—basically, a global thermonuclear crisis recreated on a tennis court—that’s played about a third of the way into the book. Thankfully, after having a good many people balk at the idea, I found a kindred spirit in Michael Schur, a man with an even greater enthusiasm for Wallace’s work than my own. With much adoration and respect to this seminal, genius book, this is what we’ve come up with. I can only hope DFW would be proud." Watch the 'Calamity Song' music video below... |
