Danny Elfman Releases VHS Type Music Video for Boy Harsher Remix of “Joyful” [Video]

Oscar-nominated musician/composer Danny Elfman is again this Halloween with a brand new music video, placing a retro Eighties fashion twist on the Boy Harsher remix of his music “Joyful.”

The brand new video is the newest visible to accompany Elfman’s latest remix album, Greater. Messier [Anti- / Epitaph]. “Full with unsettlingly saccharine smiles, laughter and cheerleading choreography that really feel like a warped VHS tape unearthed from the deepest depths of the Eighties, the music video brings to life the duo’s darkwave pop rendition of the music with the assistance of administrators Muted Widows and Elfman’s inventive director Berit Gwendolyn Gilma.”

“The discharge comes simply in time for Elfman’s extremely anticipated back-to-back concert events tonight (October twenty eighth) and tomorrow (October twenty ninth) at The Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, CA, each of which is able to function Boy Harsher as a particular visitor. Entitled Danny Elfman: From Boingo to Batman to Large Mess and Past!, the reside concert events will see Elfman presenting expanded, full size variations of his internet-breaking, critically acclaimed performances at Coachella Music and Arts Pageant earlier this spring. His first official career-spanning headline performances, each nights on the iconic Hollywood Bowl will function Elfman backed by the identical rock band, orchestra, and choir that he performed with at Coachella, as they carry out songs from Oingo Boingo; his solo profession, together with his 2021 album Large Mess; in addition to a plethora of his movie scores and tv themes from Alice in Wonderland, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Earlier than Christmas, The Simpsons, and extra. The viewers can be transported into Elfman’s imaginative and prescient and magical world; along with his haunting compositions delivered to life on stage and enhanced by visuals on the large display screen.

“Right now’s music video additionally arrives on the second anniversary of the discharge of Elfman’s authentic model of “Joyful,” serving as a full circle second for him and a return to the origin of his expansive and wildly bold Large Mess undertaking: the monitor that ignited all of it two years in the past. A biting social commentary, “Joyful” marked the primary style from Large Mess upon its preliminary premiere in October 2020 and noticed the 4x Oscar nominated, Grammy and Emmy Award-winning artist ship the sudden but once more – simply as he has all all through his incomparably prolific profession.

“Following the discharge of “Joyful” together with a number of different dynamic singles and aesthetically ingenious movies, Elfman formally debuted Large Mess in June 2021 to widespread acclaim. Clocking in at 18 tracks, the kinetic double album finds Elfman breaking daring new floor as each a songwriter and a performer whereas becoming a member of forces with drummer Josh Freese (Devo, Weezer, The Vandals), bassist Stu Brooks (Dub Trio, Girl Gaga, Lauryn Hill), and guitarists Robin Finck (9 Inch Nails, Weapons N’ Roses) and Nili Brosh (Tony MacAlpine, Paul Gilbert).

“At all times persevering with to push the envelope, Elfman then unveiled Greater. Messier. this previous summer season – a model new genre-defying album of remixed and reimagined variations of music from Large Mess. The 21-track undertaking is comprised of collaborations and visitor vocal options from a sprawling array of artists together with Trent Reznor, Iggy Pop, HEALTH, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Zach Hill of Dying Grips, Xiu Xiu, Squarepusher, Ghostemane and plenty of extra. With the assistance of his collaborators Gilma and Stu Brooks, and his longtime supervisor Laura Engel, Elfman enlisted a singular arsenal of artists to make use of the unique Large Mess songs as their canvases and experiment in their very own distinct voices.

“Each Large Mess and Greater. Messier. channel the riveting unpredictability that has pulsed via all of Elfman’s tasks to-date, from his early days with the theatrical Mystic Knights to the rock band Oingo Boingo, to his prolific work scoring over 100 movies & tv collection together with Marvel’s new blockbuster Physician Unusual within the Multiverse of Insanity, Noah Baumbach’s buzzing new movie White Noise, and Tim Burton’s extremely anticipated new collection Wednesday.”