Handsome Furs - Cannot Get Started

What this video is

Released in summer 2007 as the second video from Plague Park, 'Cannot Get Started' arrived during the peak of the indie music blogosphere era, when Stereogum, BrooklynVegan, and Pitchfork served as primary gatekeepers. Handsome Furs — a husband-and-wife duo from Montreal on Sub Pop — occupied a unique niche, blending Dan Boeckner's Wolf Parade pedigree with Alexei Perry's literary sensibility and drum-machine…

Why it matters

Represents the Sub Pop mid-2000s indie post-punk aesthetic at its most stripped and uncompromising: drum machines, angular guitar, and a complete refusal of music video spectacle. The video's narrative-within-realism approach — a band marooned in a real-world venue — became emblematic of the…

The director

Montreal-based music video director active in the mid-2000s indie rock scene. Directed multiple videos for Handsome Furs including works associated with the Plague Park album era. Also directed videos for Wolf Parade tracks including 'I'll Believe in…