The Folk Implosion – “Bobblehead Doll” [Video]

The Folk Implosion have released a new video for “Bobblehead Doll” directed by John Davis. The track is off their first full length album in 25 years, Walk Thru Me which arrives June 28th on Joyful Noise Recordings.

“How the fuck are we going to turn this into a song?” That’s the question Lou Barlow and John Davis have asked themselves since co-founding the Folk Implosion in the early 1990s. Beginning with improvised jams featuring Barlow on bass and Davis on drums, the duo develop their beat-driven pop collages from the ground up. It’s the process they used on their debut cassette, Walk Through This World with the Folk Implosion, and one they’ve returned to 30 years later on their spellbinding, self-referencing reunion, Walk Thru Me.

“Bobblehead,” a song that Davis describes as “Noam Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent meets ‘Beautiful World’ by DEVO.” Originally based on an intimate relationship where someone preferred to be propped up instead of listening to opposing perspectives, Davis rewrote the lyrics 15 years later to make them more broadly political. “I like sports, but I think the culture around it has become very militaristic,” he says. “We see facile representations of it like a fighter plane flying over a football game. ‘Bobblehead’ also fits with ‘Water Torture’ in my mind, because they are about different sides of empire—the violence abroad and the selling of it back home.”

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