Blog: Stereogum

Thao Nguyen's We Brave Bee Stings And All last yielded the Play-Doh romp of " Bag Of Hammers ." In "Swimming Pools" the kids are still going wild, but it's more a Beat Street -style graffiti war (in a lo-fi sense). The clip, directed by Clyde Petersen, who also did "Bag Of Hammers," moves between friendly neighborhood bike rides, bouncy cowboy boot-accented performance footage, and various stencils and cut-out props (clouds, lightening, rain). Thao manages to get her tag up on a few storage sheds and the like, but her backing band, the Get Down Stay Down, [...]