Video: Babes, ‘Life Come Into Me’

Kevin Bronson on August 14th, 2015

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Every time we think that Babes couldn’t possibly push the envelope any further, the L.A. quintet comes up with something like the video for “Life Come Into Me.” The band’s gorgeous-if-syrupy retro-pop comes veiled in the notion that no matter how hard we try, love in modern times simply might be an archaic concept. Or at least just some strange combination of comedy, tragedy and pornography. Their video for “Dad” came with the disclaimer “We have daddy issues.” Their video for “You & Me” found singer Sarah Rayne Leigh looking for love in the damnedest places. Whips were involved in “Isn’t It Love?” And there was the phone sex line goddess in “ATMO,” which stands for Always Turning Me On, which in Babes’ world is kind of an ode to being perpetually horny. Babes — Sarah Leigh along with mustachioed siblings Aaron and Zach and “cousins” Jeffrey Baird and Bryan Harris — one-up themselves with the Sarah Hamblin-directed video for the melancholic, keyboard-drenched “Life Come Into Me,” a song off their forthcoming full-length “Untitled (Five Tears),” out Oct. 30 via Barsuk.” Here, their squeamish humor revolves around an audition, with a slew of dudes parading in front of a thoroughly unimpressed Sarah. Life’s just a casting call, and it’s all about how you shake your junk, right? Apparently. And you know what they say about all that glitters …

||| Watch: The video for “Life Come Into Me”