Kevin Bronson on April 16th, 2020

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Send Medicine get surreal — real surreal — in the video for their new single “Scorpio Long Ago.” But there’s a moral to the L.A. psych-rockers’ madness.

“The writing and recording process has become much more collaborative and alchemical under the family we now have in this band,” explains Julian Hacquebard, who co-founded the band in his native Canada before moving to L.A. seven years ago. “The idea behind this video was to explore vignettes where we’re all assisting, helping or anchoring each other in some way shape or form. All under the backdrop of surreal manifestations — which after all, is what being in a band, or at least being in this band, is all about.”

Directed by Hacquebard and Ryan Patrick Glennan and filmed by Colin Pierce, the video paints a whimsical picture of a band that over two albums have breathed life into the spacier sounds of the ’60s. Released in January, “Scorpio Long Ago” was the band’s first new music since their 2018 sophomore album “Mermaids on the Verandah.” It’s not the first time the zodiac has cropped up in their music, either. Their debut album was 2016’s “Scary Aquarius Daughter.”

It’s a sign that more is on the way. Send Medicine’s third full-length, which features a collaboration with Lauren Ruth Ward, is on the way in the second half of this year.

||| Watch: The video for “Scorpio Long Ago”

||| Previously: “Harvest Man,” “Corduroy,” “She Believes in the Devil”