The Builders and the Butchers, 'Golden and Green' -- Video Premiere

Posted on Jul 17th 2009 11:00AM by Benjy Eisen
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For their first ever music video, the Builders and the Butchers decided to go for it. Like, really go for it, just like Henry Darger, the song's subject, really went for it: as the unofficial poster child for outsider art, Darger wrote and illustrated a single-spaced, 15,000-plus page manuscript that his landlady discovered only after his death. He went for it alone, but he nonetheless went big.

As for the 'Golden and Green' video, frontman Ryan Sollee attributes its vision to director Alicia J. Rose, who took the song's concept and "ran with it, even bringing the Vivian Girls to life," he says. "It was an intense three days covered in dirt that really made us feel like the characters we were becoming."

Somehow that dirt really brings out the golds and the greens that the song is named after. How topical. Watch the premiere after the jump.