Squid - Pamphlets (Official Video)

Here's the official video for Pamphlets by Raman Djafari. When planning the music videos for this album we wanted to make sure we covered a few different mediums, so we're super happy to have a freaky animation ticked off the list.

Unsettling? Yes!
Hopeful? Yes!
Life affirming? I wouldn't go that far... but close!
Enjoy.

Directed and designed by Raman Djafari
Rigging and character animation - Barney Abrahams, Raman Djafari
Production company - BlinkInk
Executive producer - Josef Byrne

“The video for Pamphlets is a meditation on the feeling of being unfit, unlovable, not compatible and the manic anxiety and stress that this results in. I wanted to explore a state of mind that I have found myself in many times, of fearing to go outside and being confronted with everything that one cannot love about themselves.

Rooted in trauma that is as personal as it is always connected to society at large, harmful self-images are incredibly hard to escape. The fear of being rejected for the ways one is marked as different and perceived as such, manifested in the presence and gaze of others, becomes the way we see ourselves. We internalize the rejection that we are subjected to. As a result, there is the urge to hide away, suppress and judge whatever it is that we have been taught to hate. Thus detaching from the self and thereby detaching from others.

This is a video that relates to my own experiences as well as it is a solidarisation with everyone that has been made to feel this way.” Raman Djafari

-- Pamphlets Lyrics --

That's why I don’t go 
Outside 

Pale teeth and white smiles 
They don’t care and I don’t mind
Pale bricks and wide smiles
That's why I don’t go outside
I’ve got a brand new car
Right on my drive
But those pale bricks and white smiles
That’s why I don’t go outside

I don’t go outside, outside, outside
I’ve got flagpoles in my sights

Legs still but the herd is in motion
Legs still but the herd is in motion
Legs still but the herd is in motion
Could you do another and could we be in motion? 

Pamphlets through my door
And pamphlets on my floor
Open wide, we’ve got everything, everything you like

#Squid​ #BrightGreenField​ #WarpRecords

[geofflee]

Im 68 and got this on heavy rotation, had tickets to see them in Bham but couldnt go, going to see them in Bristol in the summer....if Im still alive? 😅

[WrenCubes]

half of my serotonin comes from this song's cowbell

[robertjamesgreen]

On constantly in my car. I'm 50 next week and new music still amazes me.

[martinkelsen]

Visual and musical creative genius! Much appreciated by this 63 year old music lover. I just love this track the early part reminds me of Captain Beefheart and the later part of early Pink Floyd with Syd Barret, both of which are massive compliments,

[dropinarte]

Just sat in a presentation of the creative brain behind this music video, Ramar Djafari and thought it'd be interesting to know some of his background thoughts on this :) basically to him (short version), it's about being trapped in your own head, being too scared to go outside because you feel worthless/ ugly/ invisible etc and then at the end, how that pain and loneliness can be channeled into art and becomes a part of you and your personal development.

[martyschwartzhere]

Song of the year. An absolute masterpiece.

[ratgnash]

0:14 Homie just checking on his Mii Plaza

[veritaslegionis]

One of the best records ever made by anyone ever.

[gabrielkoewers]

Just came back from a psychotic break. Its pleasant to see that theres music as crazy as i am. Sounds pretty🎉

[mcasey]

They were excellent at The Fine Line in Minneapolis.

[jonnykhatru]

Loving this song even more since hearing it as the climax to the album

[hectormugwump]

Fucking loving the whole wave of incredible Post-Punk that "coincidentally" has arisen since Mark E Smith left his corporeal form.

[joeadhemar]

What an amazing piece of art. Congratulations to all involved in its creation

[HomieDawgLeka]

i've got a fever, and the only prescription is: more cowbell

[JayLikesIt]

I had never heard of this band, but this is immediately one of my favorite songs/music videos of the year.

[superwildejellyfish]

Bright Green Field was a workout on first listen, I was out of breath when this track ended!

This track on record too... you guys nailed the pressing, it sounds incredible!

[sammo]

this is the Paranoid Android of this era of rock music. I don’t quite know what that means but it just is.

[WUBAWWW]

Panfletos 💌greetings to all anxious people out there from La Paz, Bolivia.

[moka]

Pamphlets just became my favourite song off BGF, this is so opportune

[ciroamore]

The drum beat at the very end of the song is the beat from You Made Me Realise by My Bloody Valentine