Melted Bodies (ex-Local Natives) Grab You By The Newsfeed In Their New Video

Throw David Lynch in the pit of a 2020 grind show and the noise that it makes might resemble Melted Bodies. The spasming Los Angeles-based quartet play rabid, squealing math-rock with a hard sheen of the goofcore polish that’s found on vintage late-night TV and the side of the highway outside Disneyland. The up-front influences are Mr. Bungle, Ministry, Sigh, and Graf Orlock, but there are also weirder flickers here and there of Devo, Bomb The Music Industry! and the Rocky Horror Picture Show. The result is the unlikely occurrence of party-noise, music that is both scathing in its sonic profile but also somewhat hilariously cinematic, the soundtrack to a radioactive spaghetti western where everyone’s throwing up. The new Melted Bodies video for Ad People thrives on what are seem...

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