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Brooklyn's Asobi Seksu released Citrus last year, an album that suited description in colors and textures almost more than words like "loud," "pop," and "reverb-y." The band's new video for the second single from Citrus, "Goodbye", has a synesthetic quality to it: colors and shapes burst or unfold to the music, and patterns form as chords change. The video's animated shapes are made from origami paper folded into carnivourous flowers, fish, mountains, and birds. Asobi Seksu appear in the video among the foliage, but they look fine with letting the focus stay on the animation. Director Major Lightner and director/animator Ryan Bosworth do a wonderful job of giving form to the band's swirling, textured noise.

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