Desert Sharks – Queen City Sounds and Art

DesertSharks1 — Desert Sharks, photo courtesy the artists

In the music video for “Sorceress,” the band Desert Sharks looks like a cool, Goth street gang with more than a passing familiarity with the occult. But the music is like a fuzzy, more garage rock Dum Dum Girls—the anthemic dynamics and tight vocal harmonies. The song is a celebration of recognizing and using one’s powers whether musical or personal in other ways with the symbol of the “sorceress” as the kind of magical, subconscious power we all wield in life if we choose to run toward and cultivate rather than away from the non-linear, dark side of our consciousness. In the video various people are “awakened” to their possibilities through a kind of magic touch and prematurely aged but in possession of supernatural powers. Maybe it wasn’t meant as anti-ageist but an interesting detail nevertheless as the newly old are brought under the spell and into the circle of the mystical punk rock gang. That this kind of message comes through the auspices of a song reminiscent of an ultra-catchy Ramones-esque surf punk song is a major bonus. Watch the video on YouTube and follow Desert Sharks at the links below.