Video: Surf Curse, ‘Self Portrait’

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Surf Curse (Photo by Julien Sage)

This week in Scream Therapy:

Surf Curse has released the epic film … er, music video for their new single, “Self Portrait,” a song that can only be described as magnificently Nineties-core.

The video stars Sarah Ritter along with the band’s Nick Rattigan, never boring in any of the videos he has directed and/or appeared in. There are open wounds real and metaphorical here, and directors Nathan Castiel and Rattigan do an intense job of bloodletting.

The song is a bitter admission that being human is to be a prisoner of contradictions. “A self portrait gave me hope for today / Just like the rest I threw it away,” the song ends, because who knows what tomorrow’s picture will show.

“Self Portrait” is the fourth single from “Magic Hour,” the band’s fourth album and first for Atlantic Records. It’s out Oct. 7.

And speaking of film, Surf Curse will co-host a screening of “Sympathy for the Devil,” followed by a discussion, on Wednesday, Sept. 14, at Brain Dead Studios. Info here.

||| Watch: The video for “Self Portrait”

||| Live: Surf Curse play Primavera Sound Los Angeles next weekend. They also headline the Palladium on Dec. 17.

||| Previously: “Lost Honor,” “TVI,” “Sugar,” live at the Fonda, “Disco”