Video: Mint Field, ‘Petty Box’
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Post-punk en Español is … post-punk? The video for “Petty Box” — file under: Mexico’s Freakiest Home Videos — is as good an introduction as any to Tijuana trio Mint Field. The band of shoegazing 19-21-year-olds — guitarist Estrella Sánchez, bassist Andrés Corella, and drummer Amor Amezcua — released their debut EP “Primeras Salidas” last year and have been busy touring since. And two weeks ago, they were added to the lineup at Coachella, where they will play on Sundays. “It is a dream to be sharing a lineup with bands that influence us and enjoy one of the most important festivals in the world,” they told Linne Magazine. Indeed.
Shot on what appears to be an old tape camcorder, the music video for “Petty Box” combines clips of the band’s haunted house with vintage beauty pageantry — think Little Miss Sunshine meets the Blair Witch Project. Throughout the video, Sanchez walks through a house with some gas-station-style-sunglasses and a disco ball, turning corners, passing TVs broadcasting static/old cartoons and eventually taking a trip into a room where the band appears to be playing a spooky high-school dance. The disco-docent eventually leads the camera to a patio where some musically-inclined corpses lie in repose, and then she pauses, overlooking Tijuana, before a hard cut to a stand-still group shot, right out of a witches’ family photo album. The last image is the band lying in a bathtub.
||| Watch: The video for “Mint Field”
||| Live: Mint Field plays April 17 and 24 at Coachella.
[…] first spotted Mint Field in early 2016 when, at the ripe age of 20, they were added to play one of Coachella’s early slots and we happened upon the wonderful DIY video for “Petty Box” (alas, since removed from […]