LISTEN (AND THEN PLAY): BOY IN STATIC’S TOY BABY GRAND

The best thing that’s landed in my mailbox so far this week: Alex Chen, half of pop-duo Boy In Static, submits the video (directed by Philip Stockton and himself) for his band’s latest single, Toy Baby Grand. Chen explains: “Footage for the video was captured like a performance, pasting text and GIF’s into Textedit in sync with the music.”

But! Then! Even better: after you’ve watched, you go play the video in game form to win MP3s, and, says Chen: “the twist is that we will unlock more MP3’s based on the number of hits.” So, go play, please.

Boy in Static (consisting of Chen and Kenji Ross) was originally signed to Alien Transistor, the label headed by Markus Acher of Offworld favorite band The Notwist (where their original web video Bellyfull was featured on the Mother Boing), before moving over to Mush and touring with the likes of Harmonix-related synth-pop mainstays Freezepop.

See more about Boy in Static here, and more about Chen’s other fantastic art/music/web work here.

Toy Baby Grand: the game [Boy in Static]