"Sherman (Animals in the Jungle)" by Tom Vek

I love the dream logic of both the dizzying lyrics and the tense, fragmented editing and pacing of the video for this song, "Sherman (Animals in the Jungle)" by Tom Vek. It plays almost like a David Lynch film...especially with that ominous, non-specific rumbling in the intro...it has the texture of a scene from "Twin Peaks" or even "Mulholland Drive."

You think of death
The inevitable option
Not the thinking type
You just wanna tick some boxes
Now that you're out of calm
Now that the rubber has erased it
Oh, we're attacking now
I'm on the team, the immovable object
An exotic creature,
Wrapped around the tree of your life
Armed with little perfect teeth
Armed with long legs dancing
Armed with the type of smile
That will crack your pain
Oh, it's so ha-ha, ha-ha-ha-ha

We're just animals in the jungle, Sherman
In the jungle, Sherman
Animals in the jungle, Sherman
What is it on that ramp, Sherman?
On that ramp, Sherman
Animals in the jungle, Sherman

Now you realise things have got out of control
There's no thinking time
There's no multiple choice
What is the action now?
How can it all just disappear?
Why did you swallow that way?
You aren't gonna fool anybody, you know
In a court of law, your braces hanging
You better pull up your trousers
There's no belts allowed
All these people will heckle
They'll want life inside
And that's when you decided you died

We're just animals in the jungle, Sherman
In the jungle, Sherman
Animals in the jungle, Sherman
What is it on that ramp, Sherman?
On that ramp, Sherman
Animals in the jungle, Sherman

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"Oyster" by Nothankyou

Nothankyou are Olga Bell from Brooklyn and Tom Vek from London.

Awesomeness.

Oyster

I watched the coldest ocean rise up your face
I watched the water boil itself into rain
I watched the coldest ocean evaporate
Watched it all come down now didn’t I

Do what you want anyway
(Show a little control)
Do what you want anyway
(Have a little regard)
Do what you want anyway
(The world is your oyster)

Embrace the void you know it won’t go away
It’s such a tall order to do what you say

(Chorus)

So when the undertow has you on your knees
Go with the water
Drive through the water
Stay

Because you have me, baby
Do what you want
You have me, baby
Do what you want
…
Do what you want anyway
(The world is your oyster)

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