![]() ![]() "It was almost this deconstructing what I knew how to do, or something. instead of playing how I knew how to play it, I would play stuff with one finger, bend the strings, detune a lot," she says. "I was in this phase in my music where I wanted to unlearn everything, so I developed this way. Eyes rolling, she declares: "My heart is not a sports car / My heart is a cab / Your love is a fad / And you're a drag."īut the prevailing "XXX"-era memory that stands out in Timony's mind is that it was a formative period of deconstruction. Helium's vocalist and guitarist Mary Timony (now in Ex Hex) shreds while aimlessly scratching her leg with her foot, a disaffected expression on her face. In the video for the bittersweet, narcoleptic dirge, the band is half-shrouded by projections of lysergic liquid bubbles gurgling over said projector. It features the Boston band loitering around a cavernous former hospital, destroying an overhead projector, and watching a building be demolished. Yet few videos are as capricious (and cheeky) as Helium's "XXX," newly cleaned up from its poor YouTube rips. The art of the moody, attitude-filled music video peaked in the 1990s, with the likes of Natalie Imbruglia's " Torn" and Liz Phair's " Stratford-On-Guy" giving adult angst an iconic aesthetic. ![]() Helium's rarities compilation Ends With And, plus vinyl reissues of The Dirt Of Luck, The Magic City and the No Guitars EP, come out May 19.
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