Media

The Smith Westerns: "Be My Girl" (Live at Monster Island) (Video)

5:16 p.m. · September 4, 2009 · by Matthew Richardson

Chicago lo-fi glam quartet The Smith Westerns don't really need a video less muddy than the one shot by Ray Concepcion at Monster Island in Brooklyn. Concepcion's constantly moving camera and the band's largely obscured faces go naturally with the jangly guitar fuzz and insistent moaning of "Be My Girl." The straight-up, hand-held performance video seems to suit The Smith Westerns so well that a scripted video would seem ill-fitting, unless they maybe had matching outfits. With sequins.

[TheFader]