Watch Black Lips' Wonderfully Weird Clip for "Can't Hold On"

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Black Lips have a new album out today, Satan’s graffiti or God’s art?, and to support it they have a new video for the snarling “Can’t Hold On.” This is their first video to feature the band’s new lineup: founding members Cole Alexander and Jared Swilley, joined by former guitarist Jack Hines, Oakley Munson on drums and Zumi Rosow on sax.

And man, this one’s gleefully dark and trippy, and has a budget lower than The Blair Witch Project. Scorpions, skulls, wandering dogs, teething babies, police officers, spinning hands and mounds of suds are all common images in the clip. There’s a point where the band is playing in a circle of flames, and that probably doesn’t even crack the top 10 of preposterous things.

Alexander snarls about not being able to hold on to anything, and that’s what this Ian Cone-directed video feels like. Everything is coming apart at the seams. And in that fracturing, a wonderful mess has been made.

The Sean Lennon-produced Satan’s graffiti or God’s art? is out now on Vice Records, and you can watch the “Can’t Hold On” clip above. Enjoy Black Lips’ 2011 Daytrotter Session via the Paste Cloud player below, and find their current tour slate here.

Watch Black Lips’ Wonderfully Weird Clip for “Can’t Hold On”