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Friday, December 12, 2008

Watch the 'One Month Off' video!

Watch below the brand new, and decidedly creepy, video for 'One Month Off', released on January 26th. As with the promos for 'Flux' and 'Mercury', there's no sign of Bloc Party in the video, just lots of nursery rhyme characters being blown into smithereens...

Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet, eating her curds and whey
Then came a grenade which exploded beside her and turned the poor girl to sorbet

Edit: The video was directed by D.A.D.D.Y. (Design, Animation, Design, Design, Yay) and based on Ray Harryhausen's 1940s/50s stop-motion fairy tale animations:

"We acquired a number of the [Harryhausen] fairy tale stories and re-edited them to the track, so we had a strange narrative set in this animated fairytale world. A place inhabited by all the classic characters from Little Miss Muffet to Red Riding Hood. Taking the re-edited vintage animations, we then reanimated over these beautiful old stop-motion films, adding some 'reality,' so they lost that innocent feeling and meaning they once had. We have no idea what Mr. Harryhausen will think if he sees them, but some of the new cartoon violence makes parts of the video darkly funny, which he might like."

[Download] Bloc Party - 'One Month Off' video

Ray Harryhausen's Little Red Riding Hood (1949)...this time, she doesn't get vapourised by a tank

Labels: One Month Off, Singles

¶ 11:24 PM

Comments:

so creeeepy, but so cooool haha. still thik there could have been better songs to be released as a single, but this video made me laugh

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Anonymous : December 12, 2008 11:49 PM

Wow, how un-Bloc Party. At least they're trying new things.

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Anonymous : December 13, 2008 3:27 AM

"Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet, eating her curds and whey
Then came a grenade which exploded beside her and turned the poor girl to sorbet" ROFL!!! Damn straight. She got the works. I like the idea of the video and the song put together. Seems like bloc are done with making music vids tho :(.

V.

# posted by

Anonymous : December 13, 2008 5:32 AM

With all that destruction its def russell driving that tank!

# posted by

Peanuts : December 13, 2008 10:50 AM

For some reason, the video and lyrical content seems to line up rather well.

# posted by

Mikey : December 14, 2008 2:56 AM

"Seems like bloc are done with making music vids tho :(."

forget about talons V.?

# posted by

TDL : December 14, 2008 4:53 PM

It's great to see Bloc Party make more creative videos! Unlike some others... I'm looking at you HFW!! What a wasted oportunity!

# posted by

CrazyBlue : December 14, 2008 8:16 PM

this vid sucks, its soo ugly and disturbing

# posted by

Anonymous : December 15, 2008 2:59 AM

It's cool that they choose a theme, a concept, and work deep in the subject.
More strange clips, Bloc Party!

# posted by

digo_brasil : December 15, 2008 7:50 PM