Nurses - Fever Dreams

I consider it to always be a treat when a music video is both filmed and edited by the band itself. There's no middle man, no filter that the music must pass through before its visual manifestation. We can rest assured that what we're watching is singularly the band members' collaborative vision, and not just something they agreed to.

For their video for Fever Dreams, Nurses chose to make something dense and colorful to reflect such a rich song. Original? Maybe not, looks like a blend of every Animal Collective video I've ever seen. Enjoyable? Absolutely. The white light bouncing horizontally across the screen to the beat is such a mesmerizing vehicle for keeping the pace, and the whole serenading the lightbulb bit is a quirky touch. So, hey, maybe we would have gotten something a little bit more innovative if a filmmaker had had his or her hands in it, but this is what the band saw in their own song, and I think we can tell that based upon how the video and song seem to fit one another like warm mittens.

Download the mp3 for Fever Dreams for free at their Last.FM or Bandcamp.
Fever Dreams is off their 2011 release, Dracula, you can buy it here.