Firstly, in the vein of their video for Black Moth Super Rainbow’s Dark Bubbles came the interactive trailer to Kirby and Julia aka Radical Friend’s new video for psychedelic disco-pop weirdies Yeasayer.

Move your mouse and you activate a 360º camera to explore selected scenes – and mouse-investigation is encouraged by the fact that all the boys and girls are butt-naked (in an early Seventies rock album cover kind of way).

Which still doesn’t quite prepare you for the full gorgeous oddness of the video itself: a hooded glass-faced horseman and drummer in the desert; bandmembers emerging from primordial ooze with detachable faces; more hooded glass-faced men boxing; and, of course, the nudists heading for that shimmering pod in the desert.

Amazing location (which Dan Kreeger at One Small Step describes intriguingly as a “top secret volcano” on private land outside LA), beautifully shot (by Kevin Phillips), and brilliantly wacky.

Yeasayer
Ambling Alp (Secretly Canadian/Mute)
Director: Radical Friend
Prod co: Daft Arts/Spy Films
Interactive co: Spy Digital
UK rep: One Small Step
Producer: Paul Hahn, Jett Steiger
DoP: Kevin Phillips
Wardrobe: Elliot & Diana
Makeup: Will Lemon
VFX: Cedric Hervet
Production designer: Megan Fenton
Watch: interactive trailer
Watch: Quicktime movie
Or: here