The Most Blissful Beasts of All
This music video nearly brought a tear to my eye. It is for the song "Dance Under Water (Surface&Arrival)," by the California beatmaker BastienGOAT and it depicts a herd of pixelated goats moving together like synchronized swimmers in a pool of low-budget, Windows 95-style computer graphics. The song seems more like a sketch than a fully composed piece, and the video is very hard to describe. There are alien heads, WiFi icons, clouds and lightning, all set against warped, tropical-like backgrounds. But the feeling it gives me... this sensation of contemplation, of bliss... it just carries me away....
The track appears on BastienGOAT's new album, SWIM, which he describes as such:
This album is an adventure that begins in a submarine that just surfaced just off of the shore of my island. As the day progresses, so will the weather and music. What starts off as a sunny happy day, becomes a dark scary and stormy night, but do not fear, for my island is full of homies and good times.
Stream it below, and may your goat-like spirit be well.
SWIM by BastienGOAT