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" If any of the images from &amp;quot;Give Blood,&amp;quot; the new video from Oakland trio Tremor Low, seem familiar, then consider yourself a fan of evocative, violent cinema. Or maybe just someone with particularly troubling nightmares. The Pulp Fiction- and Timecrimes-referencing cut, directed by David Dutton, sets the band&amp;#039;s darkly romantic synth-wave to a slow-motion run for their lives.      &amp;quot;The song and video are about people exploring the woods, encountering something a little menacing, and being transformed by it,&amp;quot; the band&amp;#039;s Donald Bellenger tells us. &amp;quot;A pivotal moment happens early on when the group encounters bodies on the ground, and one character realizes that the bodies are actually their own.&amp;quot; \u2028It&amp;#039;s a moment, he says, when the band give into their &amp;quot;prey drive.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;ve got to give blood, and everything you&amp;#039;ve ever loved,&amp;quot; Bellenger sings. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s a message of how the group needs to make sacrifices in order to find their new identity,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;Identity is an idea that resonates throughout the song, and in our own way, we&amp;#039;re asking the questions of &amp;#039;Who are we really?&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;What if we could change that?&amp;#039;&amp;quot; The looping, time-manipulating style plays into the video&amp;#039;s heady pontificating. &amp;quot;We felt that it was important that while the characters are giving into their baser, paranoid instincts, they&amp;#039;re always being manipulated by versions of themselves,&amp;quot; Bellenger says. &amp;quot;Did the suited people come before the masked ones? Who becomes who? We leave that to the viewer to decide,&amp;quot; he explains. Another important question to consider: When was the last time you wanted to dance to psychology? And how much fun is it to watch indie-rock dudes get murdered in the woods? Speaking of which, Bellenger says, &amp;quot;I tasted lots of fake blood and didn&amp;#039;t like it. In one particular shot, we threw a bloody knife and then couldn&amp;#039;t find it, so there&amp;#039;s still a very incriminating knife covered in blood out there on this person&amp;#039;s property.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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