What if ubiquitous computer graphics like cursor hands, spinning clocks and Wi-Fi signals were weapons of a danceable corporate war? Then you'd probably end up with something as weird and wonderfully fun as "Pleasure Palaces," the new video from Scottish indie electronic quartet Errors.
Directed by visual overloader Rachel Maclean and debuting Wednesday on NPR, "Pleasure Palaces" subsumes green-screened Errors bandmates Simon Ward, Greg Paterson, Stephen Livingstone and James Hamilton in past and present Microsoft and Macintosh desktop iconography, although the hated blue screen of death seems to have missed the final cut.
Maclean stuffed her video with imagery recognizable to office suits and tech geeks worldwide.
"I found this stock image book a while ago with a load of '80s corporate graphics in it and got interested in the surreal and comic qualities of this kind of reproduced imagery: suited figures with globes for heads, businessmen climbing ladders made of money," Maclean told NPR. "This – teamed with the fact I had been spending far too much time using Mac computers – helped to form some of the basic ideas for the video."
Screen the reel above and let us know in the comments section below if Maclean and Errors missed an icon or two. The Glasgow band's full-length Have Some Faith in Magic arrives stateside Jan. 31 on Rock Action Records, the indie label of Wired favorite Mogwai.
