So here's the deal: Mini Mansions are an LA-based band made up of Zach Dawes, Tyler Parkford, and Queens of the Stone Age's Michael Shuman. They last released an album four years ago but at long last have a follow-up slated for 2015. Most recently they've been paling around (that's band code for touring) with Arctic Monkeys and in October they dropped new single "Death Is a Girl"—a serpentine, synth-assisted psych-pop groove with its opening echoed canned beats recalling Prince's "Raspberry Beret" (tune!)."I'm not afraid of the light / I wanna live in a world where there's one day," purrs Tyler. "Death is a girl and she's only dance away." So it's your basic live fast and fuck the consequences / girls are
T-R-O-U-B-L-E anthem.Above is the premiere of the video which features former singer of The Like, Z Berg, reimagined as a Faye Dunaway-circa-Bonnie and Clyde femme fatale, while the boys look busted in a police lineup with facsimiles of themselves playing instruments. But of course.The band had this to say about it all: "The video is a neo-noir mix of sex, death, and psychedelic interrogation techniques, only used in purgatory facilities disguised as 1970's police holding tanks.”Can you buy this song? Yes you can.Kim Taylor Bennett is the opposite of trouble. She's on Twitter.
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T-R-O-U-B-L-E anthem.Above is the premiere of the video which features former singer of The Like, Z Berg, reimagined as a Faye Dunaway-circa-Bonnie and Clyde femme fatale, while the boys look busted in a police lineup with facsimiles of themselves playing instruments. But of course.The band had this to say about it all: "The video is a neo-noir mix of sex, death, and psychedelic interrogation techniques, only used in purgatory facilities disguised as 1970's police holding tanks.”Can you buy this song? Yes you can.Kim Taylor Bennett is the opposite of trouble. She's on Twitter.