Watch Vivian Girls’ Video for New Song “Sludge: Watch

Vivian Girls have shared a brand new single from their comeback album Memory. It’s called “Sludge” and it arrives with a lo-fi visual directed by Her Smell filmmaker Alex Ross Perry. Watch the trio ride around in shopping carts, sip Slurpees, and more in the clip below. Scroll down for Alex Ross Perry’s statement on the collaboration.

“Sludge” is the third Vivian Girls song to arrive since the band announced its reunion back in July. The trio previously shared “Sick” and “Something to Do.” Memory, the fourth studio LP from Cassie Ramone, Katy Goodman, and Ali Koehler, will drop September 20 via Polyvinyl. It marks their first new record since disbanding in 2014.

Revisit Pitchfork’s 2014 feature “When I’m Gone: Why Vivian Girls Mattered” and read “Elisabeth Moss Is Essentially Courtney Love in the Rock’n’Roll Drama Her Smell” over on the Pitch.

Alex Ross Perry:

I just counted: there are four different photos of Vivian Girls in the
look book I made for Her Smell.

So if you had told me when I was first seeing them at Death by Audio
(or was it Union Pool?) in 2008 (or was it late 2007?) that over a
decade later, we’d be collaborating on a music video, I would have
been alarmed at the specificity of this prophecy.

The notion was to invent a video for “Sludge” that honored The Valley,
toying with suburban nothingness and alienation, honoring filming
locations from E.T. that are still emanating traces of decades-old
magic.

To explore the dichotomy of light and dark, mortal and immortal, self
and self. Of then and now….