Legendary film composer Danny Elfman has announced his first new solo album Big Mess for June 11, and is now streaming "Insects". The song is a rework of Oingo Boingo's 1982 track of the same name, which of course was a band Elfman himself founded in 1979.
“In the beginning of 2020 I was preparing a live show for Coachella. I’d been looking for old Boingo songs that connected to the dystopian nightmare I found myself immersed in at that moment in time living in America,” Elfman explains. “As I played around with different songs it occurred to me that ‘Insects’ made sense. Who were the ‘Insects,’ the blood suckers of today? It was obvious to me – they all hived together in Washington and seemed to thrive on sucking the rational sense of reality out of our brains.”
The music video for "Insects" was directed by Sam and Andy Rolfe, and was created by puppeting over 80 contorted creatures in VR.
“Every microsecond of waking life, a relentless digital swarm of information and virtual noise slowly consumes our minds, rendering us like insects being driven by manic buzzing stimuli,” said Rolfe. “That said, more legs means better dancing. The video for 'Insects' starts off very ordinarily, following Danny Elfman as he gets ready for the day, meets some friends for lunch, but then is slowly consumed by a ravenous swarm of online static.”
Pre-orders for the album are available here.
