For the first time in a long while, it feels relatively safe and normal to go out to the movies. But while the masked-up masses are flocking to the cinema to cast their hazy grayscale bedroom eyes on Timothée Chalamet in Dune or Anya Taylor-Joy in Last Night in Soho, Sixteen Jackies are inviting us to a colorful theater all their own.
The queer punk band from Philadelphia have today unveiled a video for “Creature Feature,” a surfing-pop cruiser that takes us on a date with vocalist Jody DeMarco. The track is featured on Sixteen Jackies’ upcoming Hostile Architecture EP, out this Friday (October 29) on Born Losers Records, described by DeMarco and the boys as a collection of songs that deal with the baggage that comes with growing up queer and closeted and how that impacts a person’s adulthood.
DeMarco says that “Creature Feature” is one of the band’s “more lighthearted songs, though there’s still a good bit of angst bubbling underneath.”
The video, meanwhile, is “about meeting a boy, getting messed up together, dropping acid and going to the movies.” It was shot with director Bob Sweeney on Super 8, 16mm, and VHS film at Philadelphia’s Santa Mira Studios, and the vintage-style images that flicker across the screen flow thematically with the track itself.
“It’s about two dudes falling in love, getting messed up, and going to the movies,” DeMarco adds to echo the visual. “I originally wrote this song when I was 17 as a joke but it’s gone through many evolutions since then. This version feels like a scarily over the top declaration of devotion inside of a haunted house.”
The Hostile Architecture EP gets the proper release party treatment this Friday night at PhilaMOCA, where Sixteen Jackies perform alongside Froggy, Fast Car Slow Car, and the wonderfully-named Number One Lovers. Costumes are heavily encouraged, but any personal baggage may be left at the door. Details after the video jump.
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