Watch: Majical Cloudz Unveils ‘Bugs Don’t Buzz’ Video

Devon Welsh’s Majical Cloudz project has shared one of the most harrowing, tension-inducing videos of the year with ‘Bugs Don’t Buzz’. These creepy crawlies certain don’t buzz. More, they rule the world. Giant cockroaches survey the scene, crawling on trees in a smartly-arranged set, made to look as if they’ve become giants.

Sidenote: Who knew cockroaches were so acrobatic? Have you ever seen one fly? As bugs go, they’re pretty underrated.

On the video, Devon had this to say, to NPR.

“I wrote a short treatment that described some of the shots that we eventually used in the video. Specifically the image of the bugs crawling around in miniature sets was something that I thought could be really cool. The scale of the sets allows the camera to depict the bugs in a completely non-human world. The rest of the imagery followed from the original concept of trying to remove humanity from the video’s frame of reference. [Director] Gordon [von Steiner] ran with that concept and developed all of these amazingly alien scenes. Together, I think we hope it paints a picture that is abstract but clear in its emotional intentions.”

Majical Cloudz’s ‘Impersonator’ is out now via Matador.