This video was dreamt and planned and scrapped and planned over a five-year period. That’s because very few people believe in one-take, three-minute dance routines where animals outnumber humans three to one. We were told that, sure, dogs can do plenty of impressive tricks—so long as the sequence is no longer than 15 seconds. We pushed onwards.
We weren’t after kennel-club displays of agility, freestyle, or obedience. No circus acts, either—but something distinctly different. Something we’d come to define only with the incredible patience and panache of co-director Trish Sie, the extraordinarily Talented People of Talented Animals—Lauren Henry, Roland Sonnenburg, and Paul Jasper—and our star-studded cast of performers. (Really, we were just stagehands in the dogs’ production.)
It’s been 15 years since the filming of White Knuckles, but we old dogs still have a few new tricks to try. Alongside the 4/11 release of our new album—our first in over a decade!—we’re dropping A BRAND-NEW MUSIC VIDEO. Of course, its premise is characteristically ridiculous—something also probably thought to be achievable only in 15-second intervals. Let us know if you have any guesses. Big reveal in TEN DAYS.
