Video: Foreign Air, ‘Night at the Zoo’

Kevin Bronson on August 22nd, 2022

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Indie-rock duo Foreign Air’s sophomore album, “Hello Sunshine,” will certainly appeal to catholic tastes. There’s the visceral post-punk tune, “Shut Up and Show Me.” There’s the buoyant title track, which speaks to the fog of the pandemic finally lifting with the chipper greeting, “Hello Sunshine, I’ll be there / ’Cause you’re the only thing that’s real around here.”

And there’s the latest single (along with its creepy animated video), “Night at the Zoo,” a moody, bluesy allegory about a lion. “It is a story about transformation, a quirky tale about a lion breaking out of his cage at the zoo,” the band says. “Growing up in a zoo is all he’s ever known. As the story unfolds, he encounters all the other animals on his journey out. With each encounter, his suspicions are strengthened … There is something odd about this place. He says, ‘I’m finally crawling out of my cage now, and there’s no telling what I will do.’ Beware of the lion.”

The duo — Jesse Clasen and Jacob Michael — released the EP “Why Don’t You Feel the Way That I Do?” in February as the follow-up to 2020’s full-length debut, “Good Morning Stranger.”

||| Watch: The video for “Night at the Zoo”