METZ - Cellophane

What this video is

Released September 21, 2017 as the lead single and official video for Strange Peace, METZ's third album on Sub Pop and Royal Mountain Records, recorded live-to-tape with Steve Albini at Electrical Audio in Chicago. The video arrives at a moment of renewed critical investment in abrasive, non-commercial guitar music, with METZ positioned as heirs to a lineage running through Shellac, the Jesus Lizard, and Wipers.…

Why it matters

Cellophane represents METZ at a melodic pivot — described by critics as closer to a garage-rock anthem than their characteristic abrasive noise punk — while the video's surrealist concept treatment aligns the band with a tradition of noise rock acts using abstract visuals to resist mainstream…

The director

Shayne Ehman is a Canadian director, visual artist, animator, and musician. He co-directed the animated feature Asphalt Watches (2013), a TIFF Vanguard selection that won Best Canadian First Feature Film at TIFF 2013. His practice explores themes of empathy,…