Following up the memorable clip for "Shady Love," the electro-pop outfit Scissor Sisters come through with the sharp visual for their new single, "Only The Horses," from the New York band's upcoming fourth studio LP, "Magic Hour," which comes out on May 28. Formed in 2001, the New York glam rockers are an American band "spawned by the scuzzy, gay nightlife scene of New York," who took their name from a sexual position between two women also known as tribadism."Only The Horses" is gorgeous, hypnotic and features heroic horses, full of bright colors, and a lot of paint. It shouldn't have come as a surprise that the video for Scissor Sisters' utterly amazing Calvin Harris-produced single "Only The Horses" mostly features horses! There's some other stuff, too, but it's mainly about the horses. Given that the song's lush, galloping synths have a decidedly equine quality, though, it's hard to imagine a better set of visuals than the ones that the band came up with.
"It's a sweet joyful mélange of beat-driven future-pop, and it style-hops all over the place unabashedly," says Jake Shears of the new record "Magic Hour," which is the result of a series of team-ups between glam quartet Scissor Sisters, and a whole host of stellar artists, writers and producers. The new video is definitely a metaphor for something. The slow motion sequences are a tad grating - especially the shots of the horses galloping through the desert.
Directed by Lorenzo Fonda, the clip is suitably exuberant, which opens with horses galloping through the desert with ropes attached to them, but these are no ordinary horses! They're horses on a mission to liberate the four members of Scissor Sisters, who are being held captive inside a pyramid, covered in brightly colored paint. As the horses continue running, the ropes pull the pyramid apart, sending the paint flying through the air in a dazzling tableau of color.
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