This has been an exciting week for fans of weird music. Not only did Quimper release their new EP on Friday, but The Residents are embarking on another tour and Peter Murphy is bringing out his tenth album soon. And today, the video for Petunia-Liebling MacPumpkin’s Green Glow has finally arrived. This is her fourth music video so far, and it continues with the same brightly-coloured kitsch weirdness seen in the previous three.
Petunia’s songs tend to have stories behind them, and Green Glow is a fairytale in the style of Lewis Carroll, Angela Carter and Labyrinth. Chased through the forest by a bogeyman named the Cooker and watched by eyeless mannequin heads, Petunia finds herself following the Green Glow. It isn’t really clear what the Green Glow is, but it seems to be sort of like the Cheshire Cat- enigmatic and beguiling, but not malevolent. We also get to see Petunia jumping out of boxes, which is probably my favourite part of the video. I love boxes so much I could probably write a whole post about them. Petunia is exactly the sort of person who belongs in a box, too.
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