Do I have any frickin’ idea whatsoever what’s happening in Swedish psych-prog rockers Wheel in the Sky‘s new video? No. No, I do not. Do I think the sometimes-backwards-facing Bird Mask Guy has anything explicitly to do with the track “Jezebel,” which comes from the Uppsala four-piece’s debut LP, Heading for the Night, which is out this week on The Sign Records? Again, no. But the song itself has a kind of post-The Who crispness and sense of purpose to its chorus, and the video is weird as hell, so for right now, I think that’s probably all I need to get me through the sub-four minutes it takes to watch.

“Jezebel” is my first exposure to Wheel in the Sky, who got together in 2014 with the lineup of Einar Petersson, David Berlin, Carl Norman and Daniel Uggla. I haven’t heard the entire record, so I don’t know if the late-’60s pop-psych — with a somewhat darker undertone, thanks I think in no small part to the video — is a thread running across its span, but the single is enough to pique my interest, and it seems unlikely this will be the last we hear from Wheel in the Sky in any case. If you’ll allow me the bad pun — and even if you won’t — they’re just getting rolling.

Yeah, that’s right. Cringe! Cringe at the awful pun! Now let Bird Mask Guy haunt your dreams as he has haunted mine!

Info follows the video below. Enjoy:

Wheel in the Sky, “Jezebel” official video

The psychedelic rockband Wheel In The Sky releases their new video Jezebel. After a one night stand in a damp basement in the spring of 2014 the urge to create something grand was born. Wet, hot and sticky summer nights in the same basement resulted in the debut album called “Heading For The Night”.

“Heading For The Night” will be released by The Sign Records on the 11th of December, but until then you can check out their new video of the song Jezebel.

Wheel In The Sky tells stories. Each song contains echoes of the past as well as visions of the future. “Heading For The Night” takes you on a journey. You will visit the smallest crevices of your mind and you will ride the vast freeways of space. You will encounter murder, religion, madness, sorrow and hate.

The video Jezebel is a first step into the strange and mysterious world of Wheel In The Sky.

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