Cold War Kids - ＂Hang Me Up To Dry＂

What this video is

Released in January 2007, 'Hang Me Up To Dry' was a breakout single from Cold War Kids' debut album 'Robbers & Cowards' (2006), a record that emerged from the mid-2000s indie rock scene galvanized by MP3 blogs, MySpace, and tastemaker radio. The song ranked #46 on Rolling Stone's 100 Best Songs of 2006 and placed #8 in Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2007, reflecting its transatlantic reach. Its music video — a…

Why it matters

A landmark artifact of mid-2000s indie rock music video production, 'Hang Me Up To Dry' demonstrates how the era's directors repurposed classical cinematic vocabularies — here, 1940s–50s film noir — to elevate indie promotion into short-form conceptual filmmaking. Its fake-trailer structure…

The director

The Malloys is the working name of brothers Emmett Malloy and Brendan Malloy, LA-based self-taught directors who began their careers filming surf culture in Southern California before transitioning to music videos and commercials. Their video for Foo…