A 3.5 minute tale on the impermanence of strife. I guess many of us share anxiety over innumerable and fleeting human catastrophes? Pause to shake the snakes off. Rip up poisonous magazines. Ask for forgiveness. Do a bird dance with your inner child. Close your eyes and clean out your thoughts. Trouble’s a single compartment on the ferris wheel of life in constant rotation.

Shinyribs’ first music video was my first music video, too. We started working together on album art and merch designs a few years earlier and really hit it off. The idea I pitched to Kevin initially was an all-muppets dance video for the song “Red Quasar” off Okra Candy, but somehow we got here instead. Mr. Russell loves muppets too, but he was about to drop his fourth album and said it made more sense to visualize a new track to hype that release. He sent along the new batch of secret songs and I listened over and over and over, coming back to “Trouble, Trouble.”