Captain Kudzu’s “Months” is a Dark, Winding, Trippy, Self-Accounting Psychedelic Pop Song

CaptainKudzu1_sm — Captain Kudzi, photo courtesy the artists

There’s a bit of Nicolas Winding Refn style in Captain Kudzu’s video for “Months.” The vivid colors and seemingly stream-of-consciousness-yet-focused pacing join the meditative percussion and bass in anchoring the drift-y melody and languid guitar work even when it blossoms in distorted vortexes in the moment when the guitar head stock seems to puncture reality itself. The vocals sound borderline affectless but it suits the dreamlike quality of the song and its progression into a deconstructed ending with a sound like melting film projected on the big screen as the center, the through line, running throughout the song. An unusual downtempo psychedelic pop in sound and structure seemingly about not making excuses for the self-created chaos in your life because it eventually catches up to you whether you’re prepared or not. Watch the video below and follow Captain Kudzu at the pinks provided.