Deerhoof Reveal Absurd "Paradise Girls" Video

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“Paradise Girls” Video Revealed w/ Rookie


Click Image Above To Watch “Paradise Girls” Video
 
North American Tour Continues,
La Isla Bonita Out Now via Polyvinyl Records
 
Those in attendance at Deerhoof's sold-out show at The Met in Pawtucket, Rhode Island Saturday night were treated to a beautiful story, which played itself out onstage. Two of the four bands on the bill, Deerhoof and Lightning Bolt, this year celebrate 20 years of staying real and doing things on their own terms. And two younger bands, Priests and White Reaper, demonstrated how dramatically the pendulum of young taste is swinging back towards the ferocious, low-budget, violently non-mainstream and yet unpretentious aesthetic that Deerhoof and Lightning Bolt have always promulgated.
 
On the heels of last week’s so-insane-you-can’t-look-away video for “Exit Only” starring Oscar-nominee Michael Shannon, Deerhoof has revealed the “Paradise Girls” video. A ruthlessly funky hip-shaker, blending no-frills minimalism with outrageous Janet Jackson-inspired synchronized dance routines, the video is at once charming and off-putting with abstract costumes and over the top joyful expressionism. Director Kenichi Iwasa explains, "My first impression of the song was very rhythmic, playful and very happy. I wanted to translate that into a video while incorporating some unexpected twists. I wanted it to be weird and funny, but also sexy. As I imagine 'Paradise Girls' to be." Satomi Matsuzaki, who stars in the video, told Rookie Magazine, "In the song, I'm cheering for girls and calling for them to come out in front, so these hatched like butterflies."
 
The “Paradise Girls” video premiered with Rookie
and is available to post & share HERE.
 
It'd be hard to find a band more driven than Deerhoof has proven themselves to be. But whatever pot is at the end of their rainbow, it isn't filled with gold. "It's OK to be broke. You can still make music if you're broke," says Ed Rodriguez of their never having tried to escape the underground they're happy to call home. With a couple weeks now since La Isla Bonita was released via Polyvinyl, Deerhoof spells out what their record is really about on stage every night on their current tour. And it is starting to sink in with fans and press.
 
Indie-troubadours, Deerhoof’s new album La Isla Bonita debuted in the Top 10 of theCMJ Top 200 Chart. It also charted at #149 in the Billboard Top 200, #3 in theBillboard Heatseekers and #5 in the Billboard Top LP Vinyl Albums.
 
Don’t Miss Deerhoof Live On Tour!
 
North America
11/18: San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall (w/ Go Dark, Crystal Skulls)
11/20: Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge (w/ Go Dark, Busdriver)
11/21: Seattle, WA @ Neumo’s (w/ Go Dark, Busdriver)
11/22: Vancouver, BC @ Fortune (w/ Go Dark, Busdriver)
 
Japan
12/2: Tokyo, Japan @ UNIT 
12/4: Nagoya, Japan @ APOLLO BASE w/ eastern youth
12/5: Matsumoto, Japan @ ALECX w/ ZAZEN BOYS
12/6: Shizuoka, Japan @ Freakyshow w/ Mitsume, herpiano
12/8: Osaka, Japan @ Shangri-La w/ group_inou, Wedance
12/9: Kyoto, Japan @ Takutaku w/ Siamese Cats
12/10: Okayama, Japan @ Pepperland w/ Oshiripenpens, Lonely
12/12: Fukuoka, Japan @ INSA FUKUOKA w/ folk enough, EXTRUDERS, Hearsays, the perfect me
12/13: Naha, Japan @ Output
12/16: Tokyo, Japan @ Fever w/ Shugo Tokumaru Plus, younGSounds, Dotsuitarunen
12/17: Tokyo, Japan @ WWW w/ Tokyo Karankoron, Awesome City Club
12/18: Sapporo, Japan @ Sound Lab mole w/ Phew
12/19: Sendai, Japan @ PARK SQUARE w/ Ogre You Asshole