Today, the Brooklyn-based band Le Big Zero are thrilled to share “Horror Movie Pie Fight” and its accompanying music video. The song is the lead single from their upcoming album, A Proper Mess. Following their critically-lauded debut album, 2019’s Ollie Oxen Free, the new LP is a high-energy cocktail of garage rock and off-kilter punk. Vocalists Michael Pasuit and Carolina Aguilar continue their wry exploration of monotony and anxiety in the modern age, via a Frank Black-Kim Deal-esque sonic intertwining. The album is a reflective, messy love-letter to uncertainty and the choice to just press onward. A Proper Mess is set for release on April 8, 2022via Know Hope Records out of Philadelphia. Pre-order a physical copy or pre-save the album on your preferred streaming service HERE.
Jeanette D. Moses, the award-winning director of the video, writes: “Michael told me that the song was loosely based on a person writing a horror movie, a studio buying the rights, promptly ruining it and an unexpected “event” happening at the film’s wrap party. The song clearly had a sense of humor, which gave me freedom to get a little campy with the music video treatment. We filmed “Horror Movie Pie Fight” in a day and had three locations. The process was extremely collaborative, but they also trusted me to execute my vision for the song. 13/10 would work with the band again!”
Speaking on the origins of the song, Pasuit writes: “This one was written in the room with all of us contributing the instrumental approach in equal parts. Initially, that verse part just kept repeating. I actually filed under “hmpf” on my phone to listen back to. After we toyed around with it again and got no further, I again named it HMPF. Then I started wondering what would happen if that actually stood for something. It was completely random that “Horror Movie Pie Fight” emerged. Just sounded like a silly concept. So the lyrics were written about a person that writes a great horror film, gets bought by a studio that ruins it, and then get murdered by real monsters/vampires/etc. during the wrap party. It’s 100% absurd.”
Pasuit continues, “Since we were already leaning sillier with this one, and we knew some sort of “Part B” was needed to break-up the verses, I actually took inspiration from the video game Mega Man 2. I was down a YouTube rabbit hole where the intro music to that game came on. Unique to the song is that Carolina and I don’t harmonize. It’s the only song that’s sung in parallel octaves instead. I had been listening to a lot of Better Oblivion Community Center, that project with Connor Oberst and Phoebe Bridgers. It struck me odd that throughout the duration of the album, they’re just singing in unison. Very sparing harmony parts. But their two voices together were the identity of the album. When we didn’t come upon a decent harmony for HMPF, we decided to go that route as an experiment, and we really liked the result.”
