Kevin Bronson on December 6th, 2013

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“Lost Kitten,” the latest single from the fifth album by Metric, “Synthetica,” becomes a fanciful story in the hands of video director and fellow Torontonian Sammy Rawal, who imagines a young man’s quixotic quest to Mexico to find his mother, “an angel.” The video stars dancer/actor Sheldon McIntosh (aka Tynomi Banks, the pseudonym he uses when performing in drag) and follows him through Mexico City on a “journey with a queer adaptation, as Sheldon (his massive presence amplified with a sequin jacket and kitten heels) … collects mysterious symbols and clues from pedestrians on the colorful city streets before the mysterious pilgrimage leads him into Xochimilco, where he performs a display of mind and body-bending choreography on a flat-bottomed trajinera,” to quote the press release.