Subways

At the best of times the subway can be a haven of impatience, anger and rush; an underground tin of sardine commuters. Luckily, French duo Illustrators Mrzyk & Moriceau have transformed the sweatbox of the subway into a cauldron of psychedelic adventure for the visual imagery to the soundtrack of Subways by The Avalanches.

The wonderfully playful music video was inspired by the New York subway scene in the 70s, with an itsnicethat interview the pair explain: ““It had to look like a dangerous and stressful jungle with incredible characters. The idea was to escape from reality and go to something more strange, fantastical, with a little bit of humour.” Escape from reality you do, crude imagery of sex and play allure the viewer into a world of flying bananas, disco bums, infinite hotdogs, and cat craving carriages. The use of sampling within the video highlights the Avalanches iconic music style, as one of the first bands to consistently use sampling on a record, alongside the visual elements the music video illustrates the colourful, playful and the fantastically bizarre imagination of Mrzyk & Moriceau. All aboard the psychedelic subway!