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Some people believed it would never happen again, but here it is: a new video by Chris Cunningham. What's more, it's for a garage-punk track of snarling urgency and satisfying brevity. The video for The Horrors' Sheena Is A Parasite has arrived, like a bolt from the blue - a particularly appropriate comparison. This blast of fury, clocking in at just one minute 40 seconds, is actually a performance video - but it's also pure, distilled Cunningham.
It starts in complete blackness before a light illuminates the face of a young woman, in a rictus of pain. As the drums explode furiously so does she, flailing her head from side to side, before The Horrors' singer Faris looms in the dimly foreground. We then see other band members performing, but it's mainly the female in a white dress (Sheena, obviously) in demented thrall of their punk thrash. And that's just for starters.
As the song hits its screaming chorus, Sheena lifts her dress, and amid furious ...