Austra – “Painful Like” Video

Olympia, the excellent new album from Toronto electro-poppers Austra, is dark, obsessive music, so they’re not exactly the first band you’d expect to turn a music video into an excellent ’80s-style B-movie. But that’s exactly what we get with the Exploding Motor Car-directed video for their house-inflected single “Painful Like.” The clip stars bubbling ooze, a glowing egg sac, a gang of masked rollerbladers, and a murderous rubberized beastie who should give you Ghoulies flashbacks if you were lucky enough to spend some of your childhood watching Ghoulies movies. Watch the video and read words about it from Austra leader Katie Stelmanis.