Video Premiere: Freshlyground 'Take Me To The Dance'

Watch Freshlyground's surrealist black-and-white video for "Take Me To The Dance"

Video Premiere: Freshlyground 'Take Me To The Dance'


Cape Town's afro-pop collective Freshlyground comes with a surrealist black-and-white video for "Take Me To The Dance," the infectious electronic single off their latest album of the same name. The visuals kick off with a possessed child drenched in glitter and proceed to follow lead singer Zolani Mahola through a labrynth of boys with unnaturally-wide eyes, muscular cross-dressers and a topless rollerblader, among many others. It all kinda plays like David Lynch's dream party. Watch the Samuel Coleman-directed video below and grab Take Me To The Dance.

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