Moonface - "Barbarian" (Official Video)

Today, former Wolf Parade/Sunset Rubdown guy Spencer Krug releases Julet With Blue Jeans On, the latest album from his Moonface solo project.  The album actually opens with “Barbarian,” a pounding seven-minute voice-and-piano song. The song’s video is made up entirely of archival ’80s footage of three kids staging a dance routine in a backyard while a dog keeps interrupting, and the kid in the red T-shirt is a baby Spencer Krug. It’s all pretty adorable, but there’s an intriguing dissonance when those images are paired with a vast and serious song like this one. Also, I wish I knew what they were originally dancing to. My guess: “We Didn’t Start The Fire.” There’s also some heavy, possibly-symbolic recent-vintage stuff in there, too.