{"id":488394,"date":"2019-07-25T08:06:12","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T14:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=863402"},"modified":"2019-07-25T08:06:12","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T14:06:12","slug":"watch-claypool-lennon-deliriums-surreal-animated-little-fishes-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/watch-claypool-lennon-deliriums-surreal-animated-little-fishes-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Claypool Lennon Delirium\u2019s Surreal, Animated \u2018Little Fishes\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-25-at-9.26.27-AM.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Claypool Lennon Delirium conjure a demented fish-human showdown in their psychedelic \u201cLittle Fishes\u201d video.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Animator Micah Buzan uses the song\u2019s intro lyrics as a springboard, particularly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/les-claypool\/\" id=\"auto-tag_les-claypool\" data-tag=\"les-claypool\">Les Claypool<\/a>\u2019s visions of men \u201cgobbling\u201d up mercury-heavy fish and the pollutant settling \u201cin their soft and supple brains.\u201d Using those elements \u2014 men, fish and brains (along with random cameos from an Easter Bunny) \u2014 the visual expands into its own surreal narrative that culminates in a battle via fish-hook.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI\u2019ve had the intro vocal and melody for \u2018Little Fishes\u2019 kicking around in my head for many years,\u201d Claypool said in a statement. \u201cWhen Sean and I started working on the new record, I knew it would be perfect to develop and to add to the Delirium repertoire. Little did I know that Micah would take that music and put such mind-bending, warped animation to it.&nbsp;It reinforces my enjoyment and constant amazement of how immensely creative people sometimes interpret my words and music.&nbsp;Bravo.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cLittle Fishes\u201d is the opening track from the Claypool Lennon Delirium\u2019s February-issued second LP, <em>South of Reality<\/em>. The duo, who recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/jim-james-claypool-lennon-delirium-tour-dates-803586\/\">wrapped a co-headlining run<\/a> with My Morning Jacket\u2019s Jim James, are currently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-flaming-lips-summer-tour-dates-825899\/\">touring the U.S. with the Flaming Lips<\/a>. That trek continues Friday, July 26th in Indianapolis, Indiana and runs through August 18th in Boulder, Colorado.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/claypool-lennon-delirium-little-fishes-video-863402\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Claypool Lennon Delirium conjure a demented fish-human showdown in their psychedelic \u201cLittle Fishes\u201d video. Animator Micah Buzan uses the song\u2019s intro lyrics as a springboard, particularly Les Claypool\u2019s visions of men \u201cgobbling\u201d up mercury-heavy fish and the pollutant settling \u201cin their soft and supple brains.\u201d Using those elements \u2014 men, fish and brains (along [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-488394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 06:49:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}