As part of MTV's Indie Music Month, we're premiering videos from some of the most exciting artists in the indie music scene. Our (sniff) last video for Indie Music Month is also one of the weirdest, as veteran Sacramento, California, rock group Cake indulge their animation bug in the sad, bizarre clip for "Long Time."
In the video -- a short animated film, really -- a boy and his beloved monkey are en route to the guillotine and must find a way to escape before it's too late. It's a cross between Tim Burton and those design-your-own-avatars in Wii, and it's a gorgeous piece that quickly takes a dark, morose turn.
Leave it to Cake to get us more emotional and weepy over animated figures than most videos with actual human beings. But actually, if we had a monkey that could juggle and had the foresight to escape the back of a moving van, we'd be bummed at the thought of losing him too.
The video for "Long Time" was created by Parisian CGI team Callicore Films and is the second single off Showroom of Compassion, the group's sixth album.
+ Watch Cake's "Long Time" video.