“Sand Monster” is the first in a series of video releases from Portland, Oregon’s Sea Fuzz. The action is a psychedelic dream sequence in which the lead character is abducted by a creature that looks a bit like a kelp-fringed Creature From the Black Lagoon who takes him to a secret cave where it uses magic to induce a trance while under the care of three beach witches who humorously torment him in various ways before he ties to effect his escape. It’s a plot in miniature right out of a Troma movie with a similar execution. Except our plucky hero defeats the monster and the witches with the power of fiery psychedelic surf music. He has, in effect, turned the spell and other magics back on the monster and his minions who turn on the creature. In the end the guitar hero wakes from the experience not knowing if it was real and instead of walking off into the sunset he walks toward the camera where it focuses close to his eye where we find out his pupils have turned into a spindle shape at an angle. What could it mean except that monsters and magic are real, at least in the context of this ongoing story. The song, too, is a step forward for what has become a bit of a tired genre as Sea Fuzz plays with the parameters and pacing and dynamics of the music with some imaginative performances and tasteful exuberance. Watch the video on YouTube and follow Sea Fuzz on their Soundcloud account.
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