The Loyalists, "Decision Baby Makes Moustache" [Music Video]

I play bass in a busted noise rock band called The Loyalists. We’ve been together for a while, put out two albums, played some shows. We've also spent plenty of time not doing anything. Anyway…

My bandmate Colin, who plays cello and guitar and writes most of the songs, is also a filmmaker, and from time to time he puts together something for the band. HIs latest work in that vein is this weird video for the equally weird song “Decision Baby Makes Moustache.”

I've always thought the title of the song is really awful (/awesome), but the song itself is a fun instrumental with a sort of sloppy drunken, belligerent Krautrock vibe. It’s the last song on our most recent album, Ride the Trashheap of Sound, but we’ve been playing it live for a long time, closing shows with it since around the time our first album came out. It’s pretty noisy, and in the live setting, it emerges from the sonic mayhem at the end of the song before it — a blitz of amp feedback and cymbal wash. (Fun fact about The Loyalists: There’s sonic mayhem at the end — or beginning or middle — of most of our songs, so it doesn’t really matter which song comes before "Decision Baby.")

Colin's also made videos for two other Loyalists songs — "The Casing and the Slug," and Black Ribbon. Much like this video, they're compellingly odd. Enjoy.