Sock Puppets Let Loose In Latest Bag Of Hammers Video
Critical Praise for Linus Pauling Quartet:
"A core point about the Linus Pauling Quartet isn't merely that they're a great psych band, but a great band period, able to embrace a lot of styles and moods and work them well. " - AllMusic
"Anthemic, stupid and selflessly unrestrained, the LPQ eventually attain self immolation of sorts during the sprawling chaos." - Ptolemaic Terrascope
"A quartet of Texas weirdoes who're smart enough to play it real stupid, mining that fine line between drug-induced idiocy and conceptual genius for way more than you might've thought it was worth." - Deep Water
The Video:
Continuing their streak of zany, one-of-a-kind music videos, Houston-based psych/stoner-metal band Linus Pauling Quartet is releasing the latest video for “Victory Gin,” off their album, Bag Of Hammers, released via Home Skool Recordz. LP4’s eighth studio album, which has already received attention from RCRD LBL and Noisey, is now being recognized by Impose Magazine, which is premiering the new video today.
"Victory Gin" includes a cast of dulcimer-playing, liquor-guzzling sock puppets performing the catchy, post-apocalyptic jam they unleashed with BoH’s release. “Anyone who has seen us play live will attest to the fact that I play with a stuffed Jake the Dog and Lady Rainicorn on my Marshall amp for good luck,” says guitarist Ramon Medina, who also directed the video with the help of singer/guitarist Clinton Heider. After shooting, and joining their puppet stand-ins in some light drinking, the LP4 guys realized they might have gotten a little off-track. “The original inspiration was Dinosaur Jr.'s video for ‘Just Like Heaven,’” explains Ramon. “It wasn't until I was done editing that I realized that the result was more akin to the Sifl and Olly.”
Watch the video for "Victory Gin" here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUZSZKNPCUs
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The Background:
Pure guitar muscle and Texas stoner metal psych insanity with universal themes like drugs, beer, sci-fi/fantasy, and Bongs of Power. If you like your riffs heavy, the solos unyielding, and the smell of the bong to billow out of your stereo, Linus Pauling Quartet is your band. This face-melting, idiosyncratic band has risen from a long hiatus to bring us their eighth studio album entitled Bag Of Hammers - an instrument by which listeners, partaking in the ancient ritualistic burning of the herb, can break down the walls before them and attain the pure, majestic, plenary seventh level of heaviness.
