Altered Zones

Fulton Lights' new video by British director Ninian Doff is...quite a sight. Expertly attaching arms, legs, and other anthropomorphic elements (snare drums are, of course, anthropomorphic) to crows gallavanting about some park in the British Isles, Doff has created a tableaux that is oddly appropriate for the Paul-Simon-with-a-vengeance stylings of the underlying music (there is even a saxophone solo). The song moves away from Fulton Lights' usual epic downerdom and embraces a more uplifting musical lexicon. The combination is pretty much a guaranteed smile. I mean, crows, man. With DRUMS. --Arturo Darvishire, Altered Zones