Music video for the Cape Town band, The Plastics. They worked with Gordon Raphael, who also produces for The Strokes. The story goes that they just emailed him and told him they loved his work, as a long shot. Raphael had seen another South African band, BLK JKS, perform in New York City and liked them enough to give The Plastics a try “because they were South African.”  If the song comes across as too soft for some people, at least the video’s nice. And there’s a 2BOP sweater in there too.

 

Further Reading

On the pitch

This year, instead of taking a publishing break, we will be covering the African Cup of Nations. To transition, we consider why football still matters in an era of enclosure, mediated presence, and thinning publics.