By Chris Rotolo on March 6th, 2013 in
Ten Kens is a mysterious Toronto-based art-rock operation that prefers to record in year-long stints behind dimly-lit padlocked doors. It’s that hermetic lifestyle and sense of total isolation that the band tinker aim to explore in the video for “When A Door Opens”, off last year’s Namesake.
Frontman/director Dan Workman pairs the droning cut with footage of a creamy white spirit (played by performance artist Kate Mior) waltzing in front a black backdrop. The cyclone of inherent loneliness and emotional torture engulfing the flailing apparition boil over and explode when guitarist Brett Paulin unleashes a series of fighter jet axe riffs drenched in squealing effects. Good luck ever prying any of this out of your cerebellum.
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