Man Man - Tastes Like Metal

What this video is

Released in April 2024 as the second single from Man Man's Carrot On Strings (Sub Pop), 'Tastes Like Metal' arrives during a moment of renewed creative confidence for the band following their pandemic-era album. The video's DIY animated aesthetic aligns with a broader 2020s trend of indie musicians commissioning illustrator-directors — particularly those with Adult Swim or internet-art lineages — to produce…

Why it matters

Represents the continued vitality of illustrated/animated music video traditions in indie rock, situating itself alongside a lineage of artist-directed, hand-crafted visuals. Demonstrates how Sub Pop-affiliated artists in the 2020s leverage auteur illustrators to extend a song's conceptual…

The director

Joe Cappa is an American animator, illustrator, and filmmaker born in Chicago and raised in Oklahoma. He studied film at the University of Oklahoma and spent approximately a decade working in motion graphics and advertising before relocating to Denver in…