Dhani Harrison's dread zeppelin is led through a puzzling digital dreamscape in thenewno2's new video for "Make It Home."
In the video, embedded above, delivery boy Harrison's airborne airstream is bedeviled by raiding skeletons during a hallucinogenic head-trip to what looks like a drop-off with a cybernetic demigod.
Directed by Liam Lynch – whose cult productions like The Sifl and Olly Show, Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny and especially the hysterical video for Dan Deacon's "Drinking Out of Cups" skew similarly strange – "Make It Home" is a nice slice of lo-fi sci-fi.
But what it all really means, man, is a mystery to Harrison, the Prisoner-inspired architect of thenewno2's trip-pop sound.
"Liam saw the whole thing as a dream," Harrison told Wired. "He said he enjoyed making it, because he never made a dream into something you can see in real life. I said, 'Yeah, that sounds mental, let's do it.' I trust him."
While the sparking CGI in "Make It Home" is pleasing to the spooky eye, Lynch and Harrison made the video on their own with a camcorder, a computer and what its director called "off-the-shelf editing software."
For Lynch, "Make It Home" is sandwiched "between the Pie song, the Panda song and whatever else he has done this week that is utterly insane," Harrison said. The video is also squeezed between the recent release of thenewno2's sophomore effort, thefearofmissingout, and a tour with Jane's Addiction, which starts Oct. 17 in Santa Cruz, California, and wraps with a sold-out Oct. 27 stand in Los Angeles.
