Amazing Baby - Headdress - HD

What this video is

Amazing Baby emerged from the Brooklyn indie scene in 2008, riding the same blog-rock hype wave as MGMT, Yeasayer, and Chairlift. The 'Headdress' video was released in late 2008 as an early promotional artifact ahead of the debut LP 'Rewild' (June 2009, V2/Co-operative). The band consciously channelled 1970s glam signifiers — T. Rex, Roxy Music, Bowie — filtered through a communal, ritual-psych aesthetic that…

Why it matters

As a lead single for a debut album that NME and Rolling Stone covered as a potential breakthrough, 'Headdress' is a document of the short-lived Brooklyn psych-glam micro-scene of 2008–2010. The video's aesthetic fused glam-rock theatricality with outdoor ritualism in a way that anticipated the…