“Do We Give a Damn?” (bensnburner song)

bensnburner3_crop — bensnburner, photo courtesy the artists

bensnburner’s video for “Do We Give a Damn?” looks like it was filmed in a long disused room in Pripyat, Ukraine. The visuals like Vice followed the band to film in that forbidden place playing this music that sounds like a mix of brooding minimalism and playfulness. Between guitar, drums and synth the band weaves a sound that reaches heights of desperate, haunted quality at times, at others, a dark spaciousness. All the while, even when the song peeks from behind its dark shroud, there is a sense of menace. Like maybe the band is in denial of a band of homicidal mutants á la The Chernobyl Diaries laying in wait when they try to make their exit from the doomed city. But the song ends on such a transcendently ethereal final passage it sounds as though the band escaped the musical darkness and thus a perilous fate as well. Watch the inspired performance on YouTube and follow bensnburner at the links below.