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Don’t Light My Fire (Otoboke Beaver Music Video)

Don’t Light My Fire (Otoboke Beaver Music Video)

Don't Light My Fire (Otoboke Beaver Music Video)

ONIONSKIN | Japan | 2019 | 3' |

| IFFR 2020

Punk rock group Otoboke Beaver is a female quartet from Japan. This video illustrates a song from their recent album, Itekoma Hits. Are their masterful changes in rhythm and tempo ventilated anger or pure fun? The fierce garage punk track ends with whispered, eerie chanting: “GO TO HELL”.

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