Pissed Jeans - Cling to a Poisoned Dream

What this video is

Released in February 2024 as a pre-release single from Pissed Jeans' sixth album Half Divorced on Sub Pop Records, 'Cling to a Poisoned Dream' emerges from a distinct vein of post-2020 American underground punk that weaponizes adult mundanity, economic anxiety, and ideological disillusionment as lyrical and aesthetic material. The band, hailing from Allentown, Pennsylvania, operates within a working-class Rust Belt…

Why it matters

Pissed Jeans occupy a singular position in 21st-century American noise-punk, fusing sludge-metal heaviness with hardcore velocity and a distinctly literary, sardonic lyrical sensibility. Half Divorced and its accompanying videos consolidate their reputation as one of Sub Pop's most uncompromising…

The director

Los Angeles-based filmmaker working across comedy television, music videos, commercials, and documentary. Directed pilot presentations for Comedy Central and TruTV. In 2018 directed the Adult Swim special 'Mother May I Dance with Mary Jane's Fist.' Started…