‘S.T. Tilted’ is Wombo’s purest essence distilled — Lowe’s off-kilter guitars, Sydney Chadwick’s mesmeric vocals and bass, and Joel Taylor’s skeletal percussion — and filtered through their singular visual lens. On ‘S.T. Tilted,’ melodies hum high above frenetic riffs and references range from Limp Bizkit to Eric B. & Rakim; it’s charged, adventurous, and entirely Wombo. The ‘S.T. Tilted’ music video is another entry in Danger in Fives’s canon of expertly-executed self-produced videos, complete with a hand-crafted waiting room set constructed by Lowe and Chadwick in Chadwick’s garage.

Of ‘S.T. Tilted,’ Lowe adds: “It’s the first song we wrote after the Slab EP that made it on Danger in Fives. We weren’t sure it was going to work, but all the contrasting parts ended up being cool. It’s rare for a Wombo song to be written on guitar first like this one, with some of the bass and drum parts jammed out in the basement afterwards. The wacky guitar part came last.”

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Anchored by the recurring strike of a cowbell, ‘Neon Bog’ is a free-flowing mosaic of fortunate mistakes. Soaring, distorted vocals — a result of recording Chadwick’s take to a guitar amp simulator in error — are collaged with haunting echoes, embracing a studio mistake to end with something uniquely Wombo. The accompanying music video, again helmed by the band’s own Lowe, is equally idiosyncratic. Featuring meticulously hand-crafted set designs and surreal artistic direction, the ‘Neon Bog’ video  is a testament to Wombo’s singular vision.

Of ‘Neon Bog,’ Chadwick adds: “‘Neon Bog’ is a song about a simple time I had with a friend and reflecting back on that and how relationships change over time. And how things get murky kind of like how the song feels which inspired the lyrics for me.”

Of its accompanying video, Lowe says: “I was inspired by the work of director Michel Gondry, especially his commitment to using practical effects. Instead of building miniatures only, we scaled up and built a full sized ‘miniature’ and to avoid using green screens we projected a miniature scene outside the set window on a sheet. I’ve been watching a lot of the TV show Ghost Adventures and have been somewhat haunted by the implications of the paranormal. I thought the video was a good outlet for expressing that in an abstract way. The couple is haunted by the death of their cat. The puzzle pieces represent the desire to rebuild the relationship. The cat now resides in another dimension with Sydney.”

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