Taste Test: Leeroy Stagger is a ‘Strange Attractor’
The legendary blues-rocker frames the deterioration of colonialism in his new video.
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As we see it on the most shallow of levels, life is a sedentary set of rules and applications. But with time, its relentless blade cuts into not only our skin but the world itself, the outer layers peel and reveal something altogether different. A staggering 11 full-length records over 17 years, blues-rocker Leeroy Stagger employs the pristine grandeur of colonialism, ala Marie Antoinette, to stage a manic destruction of expectation. His new cut “Strange Attractor,” spliced nicely with a visual helmed by director Brock Davis Mitchell, mines through the facades we so desperately cling to and the liberation that comes with accepting what’s right under our noses to begin with. “You’re a strange attractor to the things that you want / Don’t you know that we all feel the same,” he pokes the beast of humanity. Soon, the exteriors crumble and mayhem ensues ⏤ just as fate would have it.
“Strange Attractor” samples Stagger’s new album, Strange Path, out everywhere September 13.
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