Video: Spooky Mansion, ‘The Curse’

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L.A.-via-Bay Area quartet Spooky Mansion have a grand time spoofing “Unsolved Mysteries” in the video for their new single. In fact, if the video for “The Curse” is to be believed, the band has gone missing.

The song, a characteristically easy-schmeezy indie-rocker, is the title track from the band’s sophomore album, which arrives in early 2021 and is the follow-up to 2018’s “Alright” and the EP “That’s Me!,” released last year.

Director Gavin Murray’s video follows investigators looking into the disappearance of the band — Grayson Converse, Braden Lyle, Marty Reising and Rob Mills — while on a camping trip in the California wilderness. The “recently unearthed” footage from the trip puts a fun spin on what is basically a song about toxic relationships.

“I want ‘The Curse’ to be the song you put on early in the morning to get pumped for the day; the song you play in the Uber on the way to your first date to ensure you’re about to be the most rocking, dope version of yourself,” Converse says. “I think we achieved some of those vibes and we’ll be honored if anyone ever uses it for those purposes.”

Of the video, the band says: “Four years ago we created a short film called ‘A Space God Appears.’ The combination of narrative and music was so much fun we knew we had to do another. Charlie McCone came up with the idea – ‘Rock n Roll Mysteries – we gotta get paranormal next time.’ Four years later and it’s complete.”

||| Watch: The video for “The Curse”

||| Also: Stream the song here along with the B-side “Hot Nerves”

||| Previously: “Real Jerk”