Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds Share “Silver For My Sister” Video

Celebrating the fact that the That Delicious Vice album has gone into its second pressing, Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds have announced a September tour of the US Midwest and Canada. The band have also shared the video for Silver For My Sister, a song taken from the album that was inspired by the sentence “A wish to crawl”, which was jotted on a post-it note when Kid was laid up in bed, unable to walk unassisted for 5 months following a bicycle accident. At the same time, he was also mourning the death of a long time friend, Julie Long Gallegos, who was the jeweller with “red lipstick hair”; she was an advocate for wolf preservation and loved all wolf symbolism, so the song took shape as a tribute of sorts as it veered into storybook-land. Video directors Max Flick and Ambar Navarro capture the mood perfectly, with gorgeous surreal settings and fantastic stop motion animation.

Punk icon Alice Bag (The Bags) also appears in the video as the jeweller, her and Kid’s paths first crossed paths in 1977, during the early days of the Hollywood punk movement. Their friendship, rooted in a shared passion for raw, boundary-pushing music led to a new creative partnership and dynamic musical duo, Juanita & Juan, that transcends genres and defies labels, although the two refer to their sound as ‘Loud Lounge’. Their debut album, Jungle Cruise, was released in April on In The Red Records.