Splendour Act Tune-Yards Releases New Video Clip

Hot on the heels of being revealed as one of the eagerly awaited acts among Splendour In The Grass' massive line-up, Connecticut-based eclectic songstress Merrill Garbus, aka Tune-Yards, has released the technicolour tonal trip that is the film clip for her latest percussive, tribal single, Water Fountain.

Looking every bit like an episode of Sesame Street, if Sesame Street was produced in Jim Henson's nightmares and edited in Hell, Water Fountain's film clip plays host to a bizarre array of characters, from an anthropomorphic dog-man-chef to ghosts, monsters, what appears to be a small turtle in a sock, a character we have dubbed Old Man Feat. Straws, and whatever the hell most of these things are:

The more disturbed among you will probably note the video's aesthetic similarities to the infamously wack Don't Hug Me, I'm Scared, right down to its screaming descent into utter madness, while Old Man Feat. Straws' science lesson at the clip's end recalls the kind of absurd anti-humour that made Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! such a “unique” addition to our lives.

Alongside the repeated shots of Garbus operating each one of her eyeballs independently and the skeleton playing basketball because why the hell not?, it makes for, shall we say, a new and different kind of experience.

Absolutely none of this should deter you from watching the video, by the way. We just want you to know what you're getting yourself into. But, if nothing else, it proves that audiences are in for an absolute ream of fun when Tune-Yards – rounded out by Garbus' bassist Nate Brenner – land on our shores, come Splendour time.