Video: Parquet Courts, ‘Berlin Got Blurry’

Daiana Feuer on February 26th, 2016

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Sporting a bowl cut and a cowboy guitar lick, Andrew Savage takes center-stage in the video for “Berlin Got Blurry,” the latest single from NYC’s Parquet Courts‘ upcoming album on Rough Trade, “Human Performance,” to be released April 8. The first single, “Dust,” was a slice of social anxiety, and they’ve followed it with a song about existential nausea, so all-in-all it would seem songwriter Savage is working through some shit. “I began to question my humanity, and if it was always as sincere as I thought, or if it was a performance,” says Savage. “Like a machine programmed to be human showing signs of defect.” The song “Berlin Got Blurry” is about feeling foreign to your surroundings but stuck in that place, while saying goodbye to someone from a distance. “Knowing you can’t go home, but not knowing where you belong,” he explains. He wrote the song while in Berlin and returned to re-live the weird feelings and capture them on 16mm with director Claes Nordwall. “… Feels so effortless to be a stranger,” Savage sings as we watch him board the train, “but feeling foreign is such a lonely habit.” Totally.

||| Watch: “Berlin Got Blurry”