For a band whose music (and interviews) openly delve into the dark depths of witchcraft and the occult, it's fitting that Unknown Mortal Orchestra's latest video depicts all sorts of damnation and turmoil. In his own words, frontman Ruben Nielson describes the video for Can't Keep Checking My
Phone as such: [the song] is so full of sounds and its lyrics are so elusive so I decided that one
idea wouldn’t do the track justice.” In opposition to the song’s
upbeat funk-induced sounds, the montage of entitled hysterias elicit nothing of
the sort, though they do serve as safe, vicarious ways of experiencing oddities like capgras syndrome and hybristophilia.
Moral of the story? There are worse things in life than someone not responding to your
text.
+ Warning: This video contains a very brief segment of nudity.
