Kevin Bronson on January 6th, 2020

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“We now interrupt this music video for … the whole point of the song.”

Melted Bodies are a handful. The L.A. quartet — Andy Hamm (ex-Local Natives), Houda Zakeri, Scott McDonald and Ben Majoy — make unapologetically defiant screamo/speed-metal/math-rock. They’ve loosened the dental work of L.A. clubgoers for a couple of years, and last spring they released the three-song “People Watching” EP, which featured two originals and a cover of the Walkmen’s “The Rat” that shakes the hit to its core.

“Ad People” is a screed against consumerism, social media, influencers and sundry other phenomena that ring hollow in the face of actual reality. And the visual for the song isn’t so much a music video as it is satire — the actual song is chopped to bits by fake pop-up ads and infomercials hawking typical make-your-life-better products and services. Snake-oil salespeople, all of them. As the song screams, “F*ck me, f*ck you.”

||| Watch: The video for “Ad People”

||| Also: Stream “Ad People” and “The Abbot Kinney Pedophiles”

||| Live: Melted Bodies open for Sleeping Dog on Friday at the Moroccan Lounge. Tickets.