Kevin Bronson on December 13th, 2016

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Joshua Tree’s favorite space cadet — pardon us, we mean postmodern intergalactic pop provocateur — Jesika von Rabbit stepped away from her day job fronting the techno-psychedelic-Western eccentrics Gram Rabbit last year for a solo release, “Journey Mitchell.” In the single, she imagined herself trying out for the Spice Girls, as Psychic Spice, and we’re still out of breath trying to keep up with her lyrical flow. (Other have reported being out of breath for other reasons.) Anyway, von Rabbit again invites listeners down the rabbit hole with the new single “Going Down,” which, in keeping with many of her quartet’s songs, conjures up weird desert hallucinations, the result of having “talked for hours underneath the wicked sun.” Von Rabbit’s songs continue to challenge, not to mention blur genre boundaries, and the video for “Going Down” mesmerizes in a dark way. It was made by Italian director Guiseppe Asaro, who worked on Gram Rabbit’s videos for “Final Clap Fever,” “Shiny Monster,” and “Candy Flip,” among others, and whose latest feature Thrill Kill makes use of some of the band’s songs. In this video, a club (Harvard & Stone) is turned into a shadowy place under the spell of the wide-eyed von Rabbit, who, as the song says, is reveling in “another moment that I got to steal.”

||| Watch: The video for “Going Down”

||| Live: Jesika von Rabbit does a taping Saturday night for Coachella Magazine’s Chellavision at the Indio Performing Arts Center (RSVP). She also plays the Joshua Tree Winter Wonderland and L.A.’s Monty Bar on Jan. 28.