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It may be Brooklyn, 2012, but look quickly and you'd be forgiven for thinking it was Madchester, ca. 1990. And that's rather the point. Because just as Pete Feigenbaum's band Dinowalrus has, for its second album Best Behavior, taken a decided turn in the direction of the heyday of the Hacienda, the record's visuals have followed suit. 

It's acid house technicolor all the way on the Feigenbaum-designed album art, depicting Williamsburg's iconic and shuttered Domino Sugar Factory awash in pinks and teals, and that seems to  have been the jumping off point for this Robert Llauro-directed clip for the excellent, swirling track "Beth Steel". Pete and his bandmates stroll the streets in trenches and shades (the better to block these blinding colors), the singer haunts a record store, scales the fence on the Wiliamsburg Bridge, and dances at Domino. Makes you wish the old Dickensian factory might be converted into the sort of dance space that would house this kind or music, rather than yet another riverfront condo. In another dimension...

Perhaps the dimension that's also depicted here, as Llauro includes shots of the cosmos and a shuttle launch as well. It's all perfectly...trippy, as befits Dinowalrus. Our NV Music Video of the Day is "Beth Steel".