Kevin Bronson on October 1st, 2014

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You want a peek inside the mind of Kera Armendariz? Watch what you wish for. Armendariz, the provocatrix at the front of L.A. ensemble Kera and the Lesbians, is at the mercy of mad scientists and crazed clergymen in the video for “Snakes,” a song that came out earlier this year as part of the “Year 23” EP. The wild-in-a-great-way video was directed by Sinziana Velicescu and Michael Delaney and filmed by Lonnie Francisco, and its horror-film inspirations and symbolism notwithstanding, “Snakes” displays both Armendariz’s outsized charm and vocal derring-do. (Here, we are reminded of the theatrics of Amanda Palmer and the Dresden Dolls.) Kera and the Lesbians have a full-length album completed with no firm release plans yet, but their distinctive music – “gypsy-punk” they call it – and the mettle they show onstage make them one of the brightest lights on the horizon.

||| Live: Kera and the Lesbians play the Bootleg HiFi on Oct. 10.

||| Previously: “Snakes,” “Gypsy Song”