Video | PANTHAR - Ghost Rocket

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4Nv8aEjMvE[/youtube]

Before we go any further, allow me to point out the most important thing you’re going to learn today: PANTHAR is named after a taxidermied bobcat. I can’t decide whether I love more that this is how they named the band, or that the taxidermied bobcat is named PANTHAR in the first place.

PANTHAR sounds like LA if LA was in space. On a planet where it was perpetually the 80s (I think Hampton Beach is on that planet, too). Naturally, they will have a song called “Ghost Rocket.” The video features psychedelic laser beams, questionable eyeshadow choices, and a hairless cat who doesn’t speak English. Although I don’t think any cats speak English. I’ve heard some people suggest they all speak French; I’m not sure about that, either. The video has a retro-future aesthetic and so does the song, and it’s very easy to believe that this is more or less what frontwoman Shelina Louise’s actual life looks like. When your own life looks like snow upon snow upon more stupid snow, a neon palm-tree freakout seems pretty fantastic. Oh, I’m sorry, a neon palm-tree freakout… from space.