Laura Kerry
For a band with so many releases, LA-based Goose Pimple is surprisingly mysterious. There's not much out there that would help you get acquainted with the band; only the many rows of bright album cover squares on their Bandcamp page, and the music itself. Their experimental pop, at its sunniest, sounds like the Beach Boys might after eating too many weed gummies, falling asleep under a seedy bridge, and dreaming of getting trapped in a video game.
Goose Pimple’s new music video for “Gamers,” off of Goose Groove!: Whiz Kid Jams To The Dirt (released in June), is one more piece of the puzzle that confounds more than it informs. More than that, though—it delights.
Created by Ellie Tremayne and Paolo Yumol, the video starts with a simple animated face with green skin, blue hair, and freckles, wailing, “Jonesing for a cigarette,” as abstracted images flash in the background every few frames. In the next five minutes of the mellow, jangly tune, the video takes us to strange places—bright, rainbow-colored landscapes filled with bodies that glow as they float in space, headless men with flowers that grow out of bald scalps. It’s an intriguing (and at times, intriguingly disconcerting) mashup that celebrates spontaneity, weirdness, and a successful marriage between the band’s sound and the artists’ aesthetic.