Girls Dreams

<p>The video for "Silly Bones" begins with this quote:<br><br><span>"Your past is a skeleton, walking one step behind you. And your future is a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don't wear a watch, but your skeletons do. They always know what time it is."</span><br></p><p> What does this mean? Well according to Dave Gibson from the New Zealand-born, Brooklyn-based band the takeaway is: "Life is short yo, so eat, drink and be merry because under all this surface stuff is a bunch of delicate bones, finite, and they're keeping track." </p><p> Words to live by! "Silly Bones" is actually one of the finest cuts from this quintet, sparky but a little melancholy, hummable and capable of putting a spring in your step. As for the video, the band are noticeably absent, replaced by the Liu family, going about their day to day. </p><p> Being that the band weren't available to be in the video due to scheduling, this gave me the opportunity to craft a completely narrative concept," explains director Daniel Henry. "In coming up with the idea, I knew I wanted to work with a real family to create a pseudo documentary that also inserted a lot of my own personal weirdness. The Liu family was a blast to work with and they were very open to share with us."</p><p><span>Catch them on the road with Nick Valensi's band CRX (you know him—the guitarist from The Strokes, <a href="http://ift.tt/2fefro4 our interview with him here</a>​<span>​</span></span><span><span>​</span></span><span>), but first watch this.</span></p><div class="article__embed article__embed--youtube"><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/9sy5mZui-Bs" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>

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