Handsome Furs - What About Us (NSFW)

Being offered is the excitingly explicit new visual for their new single “What About Us” off their recently released Sound Kapital. Directed by multi-talented artist Scott Coffey, the visual boasts a cinematically apocalyptic atmosphere featuring lots of nudity. Stereogum sat down with Coffey and discussed the overall concept of this highly provocative clip. Read below and watch above.

What’s the video’s overall concept? It’s suggestive, but mysterious. Is the plot specific to “What About Us” or the album as a whole?

SC: I love this record. There is an amazing haunting and yearning quality to all the Handsome Furs songs, but they’re hopeful and full of heart at the same time. Dan Boeckner’s voice, to me, is full of mourn and yearning for freedom. So I was thinking about the entire record a lot when I was making the video. This song seemed to really sum up the themes of the record. Now what do we do in a ruined world? We can fuck and dance, but what do we do when we’re all danced and fucked out? Hold onto each other! Maybe that’s how we can start to save ourselves. I’m not a hippie, I swear. But I think the record is dripping in empathy and questioning freedom and feeling … and I hope I captured some of that in the video. I wanted it to feel narrative but work with the logic of a dream.