Dumb Waiter’s impossible-to-categorize blend of jazz, metal, prog-rock, and noise has certainly bewildered a lot of RVA music fans on first listen, but you soon forget to be confused and just get caught up in the fun of dancing like a crazy person to their unique sounds.
Dumb Waiter’s impossible-to-categorize blend of jazz, metal, prog-rock, and noise has certainly bewildered a lot of RVA music fans on first listen, but you soon forget to be confused and just get caught up in the fun of dancing like a crazy person to their unique sounds. In their new video for “Vegan Mustache Jazz,” from last year’s debut full-length Is This Chocolate?, the aforementioned crazy dancing is exactly what happens, with hilarious results.
The video, directed by PJ Desutter (who also directed last year’s pizzatastic video for Navi’s “Cool”) alternates between scenes of the band performing the tune accompanied by dancing puppets, and shots of people wearing costume heads and running around Richmond, dancing like lunatics and engaging in ridiculous hijinks. Between the PBS-on-Saturn sounding saxophone-driven groove of “Vegan Mustache Jazz” and the scenes involving puppets–which mug ridiculously at the humans they share scenes with–I couldn’t help but think of really bizarre kids shows from the 70s and 80s. This video gets more insane than anything I ever saw on the Electric Company as a kid, but it definitely has that “weirdest sketch on this episode of Sesame Street” vibe–though I wouldn’t show the final scene of the video to any children if I were you. Kids take birthday cake very seriously.
Dumb Waiter will be heading out on tour next month with RVA math-prog dudes Night Idea. They’re still booking the whole thing but the tour should take them through the Northeast for two weeks before returning them to Richmond at the beginning of August. Check their facebook page for details (or if you have show-booking contacts… they’ve got a lot of dates left to lock down). These guys were also featured in our last print issue, and if you missed that article, you can read it online here.
By Andrew Necci
