Jenna Balfe and Dennis Fuller of Donzii seem smeared in green makeup and in in green wigs in the video for the group’s new single, the title track to its new EP (which landed on November 10, 2023). The duo frolic about a stage and at one point what looks like a giant phallus of the kind used in Japanese fertility festivals is wheeled into view and used as a cartoonishly large pole to dance around and then later we see experiments of various kinds performed on the object tipped over on its side. It fits a song that seems to be about near insatiable desire but delivered by Balfe in a way that seems disinterested and playful at once. In typical Donzii fashion the No Wave funk bass lines and tropical disco rhythms amid ghostly synths and guitar work give the song a quality that is a deconstruction of expectations and building toward something more subversive. It’s frankly a welcome new direction for one of the most original bands in the larger world of modern post-punk where thin guitar tones and bedroom production rules the underground. Donzii, as usual, gives us more in the music and in its presentation thereof with the video directed by Trulee Hall. Watch that video on YouTube and follow Miami’s post-punk luminaries Donzii at the links below.
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