It’s hard to pin down Jamaican Queens. The band’s music has been described as psychedelic, industrial, tropicalia, and doo-wop, and all these elements can be heard on their brilliant full-length Downers, released earlier this year.
The new video finds drummer Ryan Clancy frolicking through a world filled with green screens, morph suits, and a plethora of psychedelic animations. It was directed by artist Mister DiMaggio, who had this to say about his ‘documentary’:
The song is about rejection and relationship-ghosting. I wanted my narrative to express the frantic emotional feelings people sense when waxing between disorientation and depression — when you lose your partner, it’s easy to feel that way. The animation is a non-linear narrative [that] follows characters as they drift into memories of their past loves and ultimately find themselves again lost in wildernesses by themselves. Expressions of personal keepsakes are destroyed, and in some instances characters are desperately trying to catch and cling to one another. At the end of the piece, there is a lighthearted, separate, unrelated vignette about a man with four arms who celebrates his [triumph over] adversity.
Watch the video for “Don’t Call Me Up” below (be sure to catch “The Eduardo Show” clip at the end):