Jackhammer : The Spinto Band

Found this song a while ago and meant to post it. The music video is pretty interesting, lots of fast-moving textures and quick cuts. It's reminiscent of Peter Gabriel's video for "Sledgehammer" back in the 80s. Coincidence? You decide.

Anyway, the Spinto Band hails from Delaware and has been around since '95. (Who knew?) The best part of this tune is definitely the dreamy, breezy guitar which makes for an funny juxtaposition in a song about a city, or getting out of one at least. Also, the song is delightfully short. Sometimes you don't need much.

A Word on Music Videos

Music videos can be pretty uninspired-- I think there's been a trend of filming on some dark sound stage with big colored lights or a giant screen in the background in the past few years. Think about it, "Speed of Sound," "Car Crash," "Somebody Told Me," and there are probably more. There's one video though, that I've been watching lately that's nothing like that. I think it was Papa Approximately who told me about "Sledgehammer" by Peter Gabriel. It's a good song but I'm just mostly impressed by how they put together such intricate stop-motion animation before non-linear editing existed. Take a look. It's pretty cool.