I have a love-hate relationship with Lawrence Welks & Our Bear to Cross. On one hand, I honestly appreciate the notion that a band so seemingly unconcerned with conforming to convention (social, musical or of any other kind, really) exists. Also, I really dig their name.

On the other hand, I genuinely despised their last album, Cam Cougar, which I found so willfully obnoxious that it lost any artistic significance it may otherwise have had. On still another hand, I sincerely doubt the band cared what I thought about the record, which really only makes me appreciate them more.

What then to make of this new video for their song “Wet,” from their forthcoming “palindromic concept album,” Binary Execute Now, directed by Nose Bleed Island’s Joey Pizza Slice? On one (more) hand, it is about as, um, “revealing” a music video as has ever breached our local shores. On still another … well, I’ll just let you decide.

IMPORTANT NOTE: This is really, really, ALLCAPSFREAKINGREALLY NOT SAFE FOR WORK — or school, or church, or old folks homes or polite company of any kind. Please, if very skinny, very moustachioed and very naked dudes offend you, click here.

Everyone else, take a deep breath and click past the jump. 

https://youtube.com/watch?v=y-vIJncZ4AA%26hl%3Den_US%26fs%3D1%26

Dan Bolles is a culture coeditor at Seven Days. He joined the paper in 2007 as its music editor, covering Vermont's robust music, comedy and nightlife scenes for a decade before deciding he was too old to be going to the Monkey House on weeknights to see rock shows for a living. He became assistant arts editor in 2017 and culture coeditor in 2021. Bolles has received numerous local and national awards for his writing on Vermont arts, sports and the occasional celebrity canine murder mystery. He loves...

6 replies on “LW&OB2X … Extremely NSFW!”

  1. is it really THAT not-safe-for-work? there’s only penises for about 10 seconds in the beginning.

  2. i would watch this on repeat at work. this is the future of pop music…unreal. thanks for posting!

  3. Cool video, but I don’t know if I’d call this the future of pop music. It’s interesting, but really just a rehashing of some past trends in fringe music. Give Scott Walker a try.

  4. yeah scott walker is awesome. i wouldn’t say this a rehashing of him. more like phil collins stuffed up a musty twat, fermentingfor a few months then shat back out through a fuzz pedal.good music.

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