grandson - GOD IS AN ANIMAL

What this video is

Released August 15, 2025 as the third pre-release single from grandson's third album INERTIA (XX Records / Create Music, September 5, 2025), 'GOD IS AN ANIMAL' arrives amid a broader mid-2020s surge of politically engaged alternative rock. Jordan Benjamin (grandson) explicitly rooted the track in a long-gestating concept inspired by George Orwell's 1984 — a farm animal learning to 'move like a human' to seize power…

Why it matters

Exemplifies the 2020s convergence of alt-rock, industrial-punk, and hip-hop-influenced production — a lineage grandson has explicitly embodied since his debut. The track draws Rage Against the Machine comparisons and sits within a growing wave of protest rock that reclaims confrontational sonic…

The director

Joe Weil is a St. Louis-born filmmaker and founder/president of Psycho Films, a Los Angeles-based production company. He studied film production at the University of Southern California. Weil is known for directing music videos accumulating over 2 billion…