I’ve mentioned this before but I’ll mention it again here: if the zodiac sign of Aquarius were a band, it’d be Animal Collective.

There is something so otherworldly and unapologetically strange about this group that really fits it to Aquarius to me. They make music that is simultaneously catchy and unsettling. And their music videos are equally as enthralling/disturbing.

FloriDada, of course, is one I’ve mentioned on here before (DO NOT WATCH IF YOU ARE SENSITIVE TO FLASHING LIGHTS TRUST ME)

But I just rediscovered Summertime Clothes and remembered how it perfectly embodies that joyous feeling of summer mixed with that dread and mild panic* of unrelenting, unforgiving summer heat. And, of course, a music video that looks like there are people rolling around in bloodshot eyeballs. Among other things.

Weirdest goddamn band. I love them.

*I don’t know about y’all, but summer makes me super anxious now. How many heat records will be broken? What cities will run out of water? Where will bridges, roads, and other important infrastructure literally buckle from the heat? How many people will die? How many animals will die? How many ecosystems will collapse? HAVEN’T WE MADE THE EARTH A FUN PLACE TO LIVE????