Music Premiere: Watch Fort Lean's Nightmarish Clip for "Cut To The Chase" by Michael Tedder PAPERMAG 03 September 2015
<div><br/></div><div><br/></div>Dating in the 21st Century isn't easy. How do you come off as interesting but not pretentious in your online profile? How long do you wait to text back? To duck face or not to duck face in your photo? In these troubled times, people need guidance. <div><br/></div><div>Never ones to ignore the cries of the people, the video for "Cut To The Chase" by Brooklyn indie-poppers Fort Lean serves as a very important cautionary tale for how things can wrong on a lovely karaoke date. Like, drastically, demonically wrong. </div><div><br/></div><div>"The video shows what happens if you're on a date, and you skimp on your Chinese food budget," says singer/guitarist Keenan Mitchell. "Demons come out to haunt your soul, torture your mind, ravage your body, and wear your head as a codpiece." </div><div><br/></div><div>Directed by Mike Anderson, it's the first video from their upcoming album <i>Quiet Day</i>, which will be released on October 2nd via ooh la la Records. As ambitiously weird as the clip is, it's really just the start. Fort Lean plan to make "make one larger, layered narrative" that will encompass all of the tracks on <i>Quiet</i>, says Mitchell, with "a few related baby-stories inside one big mother-story." We may never sleep well again!</div>
