Kuroma sounds like about a million different bands. Some of them are British, some are American, old, new, rocky, hippie, indie, everything. "In New York, Everything Is Tropical," for example, sounds like MGMT covering a super poppy Hood Internet mash-up of Wilco's "War On War" and Fiery Furnaces' "Tropical Iceland" with a South African accent.
Also, Kuroma -- whose real name is Hank Sullivant -- has actually been in about a million different bands. Or at least two, anyway: Whigs and MGMT. And his all-over-the-place sound is totally appropriate for a band-hopping Brooklyn longhair, one who happens to be your New York City tour guide for the next few minutes.
Follow Kuroma down the graffiti-bombed back alleys of Williamsburg and the leftover tenement-lined avenues of the Lower East Side as he lazies out the lyrics of "In New York, Everything Is Tropical," amid constant-popping psychedelic animations. Kuroma disagrees, Pete Wentz. This is a scene, and he seems to know it inside and out. Watch the video and just wait... Your kids are gonna be like, "Whoooaaaaa, so that was what it was like?" And you're gonna be all, "No way, kid. That's just a music video." More Kuroma after the jump!
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