Portlandia folk-rockers the Decemberists have released a new video for “Calamity Song”. The track is off their album The King is Dead, released earlier this year. The video was directed by co-creator of “Parks & Recreation” Michael Schur. Additionally, lead singer Colin Meloy elaborated on the concept for the video:

“I wrote “Calamity Song” shortly after I’d finished reading David Foster Wallace’s epic Infinite Jest… I had this funny idea that a good video for the song would be a re-creation of the Enfield Tennis Academy’s round of Eschaton — basically, a global thermonuclear crisis re-created on a tennis court — that’s played about a third of the way into the book.”