…in which i will be commenting very slowly about the music i have enjoyed so far in the summer (part 1)

Via stere­ogum, the new Rasputina video — fea­turing weird paper­dolls of Mary Shelley and Franken­stein, dancing moodily around a room because they are unable, due to ill weather, to go out­side and play. The song, “1816, the Year Without A Summer” is very good, and appro­pri­ately apoc­a­lyptic for these weird-weather days. The video is made by Dame Darcy, who, among other things, pub­lished a very pleas­ingly creepy illus­trated ver­sion of Jane Eyre last year, which I promptly bought for my sister, a noto­rious Jane Eyre fan.

• Rasputina, “1816, the Year Without A Summer”

The new album is out on Tuesday, June 26^th, and you can bet your Junior Lib­er­tar­ians for Christ mem­ber­ship card that I will be buying it.

Stay tuned for more installations.