The Afghan Whigs - Oriole

What this video is

Released April 26, 2017 as part of The Afghan Whigs' promotional campaign for 'In Spades' (Sub Pop, May 5, 2017), their eighth LP and second post-reunion album. The video arrives during a mid-2010s resurgence of occult and witch-aesthetic imagery across indie rock, underground film, and visual art, dovetailing with Greg Dulli's lyrical obsessions with memory, dark ritual, and psychosexual desire. Hood's direction…

Why it matters

Represents the convergence of 1990s alternative rock's dark romanticism (a hallmark of The Afghan Whigs' catalog) with 2010s occult-revival aesthetics and NYC underground erotic art filmmaking. The video's B-movie horror-erotica vocabulary and rapid editing pace are emblematic of a strand of…

The director

New York City-based multidisciplinary artist, creative director, filmmaker, graphic designer, and publisher. Studied at the Woodstock School of Art (Upstate New York) and the School of Visual Arts (NYC). Founder of underground publishing house Viscous LTD.…