Kevin Bronson on May 18th, 2016

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The unvarnished, psych-tinged indie-rock of L.A. trio the Anti-Job is equal parts charm and derring-do, with Amanda Jones, Martin Lopez-Iu and Lee Harcourt playing with song skeletons like Play-Doh. “You Caught My Heart by Surprise” is full of surprises, and thanks to director Layne Pavoggi it has a 360-degree video — shot from the point of view of a goldfish — to match its playful spirit.

Tongues in cheek, the band had this to say about the project: “Upon realizing that no one had jumped on the opportunity to make a VR experience about a goldfish in love, the Anti-Job commissioned marine biologist and goldfish romance enthusiast Layne Pavoggi to create an authentic reproduction of what goldfish deal with on a day-to-day basis. The complex emotions, sentiments and folkways of the goldfish are recreated in this 360 video with painstaking attention to detail with the help of goldfish sociology expert Grace Le and field videographer Andrew Kirchinski. This marriage of marine biology, sociology, 360 field recording, and indie rock pop-ballad creates the truest insight possible into the elusive world of the domestic goldfish.”

The song is from the forthcoming EP “As a Place,” due June 8, the follow-up to the trio’s full-length “Bloom.”

||| Watch: The video for “You Caught My Heart by Surprise”

||| Live: The Anti-Job perform May 27 at Casey’s Irish Pub, May 29 at the Virgil and June 18 at Chinatown Summer Nights.