Liars

"WIXIW" (video)

BY Gregory AdamsPublished Feb 6, 2013

Dark-pop adventurers Liars are offering up yet another video to support last year's Exclaim!-approved WIXIW, this time with a basketball-themed black and white clip for the title track.

The video, directed by Alex/2Tone, finds a long-haired baller making a number of unsuccessful dunk attempts. Several people stand nearby to peep the underperformer do his thing — including a dancing demon figure and Liars vocalist Angus Andrew in full-on convulsion mode — but by song's end their focus is elsewhere. Maybe they got swept up in the song's haunting, oscillated synthscape?

Alex/2Tone told Entertainment Weekly that the video is based on the Greek myth of eternal boulder-pusher Sisyphus "as told by a young ballplayer lost in a haze of codeine and prescription weed."

You can check it out for yourself down below.

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