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Matt Flegel and Mike Wallace announced their eponymous debut album "Viet Cong" with the release of its first single “Continental Shelf.”
Matt Flegel told the story behind the song to Songs for Whoever:
”I remember writing that main riff – like the first thing that you hear in the song – on an acoustic guitar. It was on my birthday, I was on tour with Chad VanGaalen and we were in a little town called Encinitas just north of San Diego, down the West Coast of California, which is maybe why there’s some sort of surfy vibe in there, because I wrote it when I was in a surf town in Southern California. I wrote it in standard tuning, it was kind of like a folky song. I had the melody, I didn’t have the lyrics, but I remember playing it in a studio with Monty and we deconstructed it, we changed the tuning to give it a weirder, Sonic Youth kind of vibe. Originally it almost had a 60s sound. We used to call it ‘Bush Beat’ because we ripped off the beat from ‘Running Up That Hill’.”
Check out the NSFW music video below, which references “classic horror films, arthouse cinema, and the work of painter Michaël Borremans.” The director of the video, Yoonha Park, explained:
"I wanted the video to feel like a reel of film that was purchased accidentally at a garage sale or found buried under someone’s front porch. It’s meant to be an incomplete picture—like screen tests from a lost movie."
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