Ten seconds in and already you’re faced with a MS Paint Mario Paint (you know, on Super Nintendo) butt spewing, well, Dear John-worthy content. Oscar the Grouch just wants to chill and light up a joint with his detached finger in it, but—oh no!—Officer McMoustache can’t allow that. Luckily for our friend Oscar, Jason’s got his back. Well, he does until he Kobe-s his melon from half court.
The flatly un-ironic stoner essence of this bizarre and hilarious music video, created by local photographer Ryan Florig (who also made the band’s other throwback music video), is nothing less than what you’d expect from local anarcho fuzz-pop trio Witch Coast. It looks more like a hilariously embarrassing attempt by you and your pre-teen buddies that your younger brother finds on your family’s old Windows ’98 desktop computer and shames you with at your wedding than anything else. The track, “Don’t Smell Like You” is a cut from Witch Coast For President, the band’s debut EP of four spooky, distorted, nearly incomprehensible and, yet, somehow catchy-as-hell earnugs. Despite, or maybe in spite of, the no-fucks-given attitude of an album that was recorded live and never mastered, it was more than warmly received last year, and we’re jonesing for more.
Witch Coast play The Dougout’s three-year anniversary show this Sunday with The Obsessives, Qualms, and Polyon.