Portland’s Menomena dropped a great album with September’s Moms. They’ve released the first video from the album for track “Plumage”. It features Justin and Danny facing off in the desert and changing outfits about 600 times. Moreover, the shit Menomena and the crew had to deal with to get the video done is crazy. Thoughts from director Trevor McMahan:

‘Menomena in Plumage’ is the ultimate illustration of the beautiful conflict in the band’s music – that aural struggle between instruments and ideas that is complex, satisfying, and always unmistakably Menomena. And what better way to re-imagine that conflict than a Spaghetti Western-inspired Mexican standoff of plumaged badassery between Danny and Justin?

After all, people don’t usually grow feathers, but who the hell said a mustache wasn’t plumage. Or a goddamn pair of shades. Or a glass of bourbon, straight. Or a couple mutton chops. Or some chest hair. Or a tattoo. Or, hell, a bath robe at 3 o’clock in the afternoon. Because Menomena sure as hell thinks so.

P.S. Our crew weathered some serious acts of god during this production – including, but not limited to: a shooting, bomb squad evacuation, a news helicopter crash,  thunderstorms, near electrocution by lightning (which can actually be seen in the last shot of the video), gale force winds, destroyed equipment, and flash flooding two shoot days in a row – and the video nearly missed seeing the light of day. It was almost as if Jesus did not want us to make this Menomena video. But apparently, we had more chest hair.