Vic Berger's releasing an album and we've got the video for its lead single, "Every Time I Get Close To You"
Vic Berger IV made a name for himself by editing surreal, satirical videos from existing footage of Donald Trump, Steve Harvey, Chubby Checker, and Jim Bakker. They were funny, yes, but they were also curiously impactful, serving to highlight and dissect the in-plain-sight absurdities of politics, celebrity, and religion. Any fan of his work knows that a key component of his edits is their sound design, be it in Berger’s blunt foley effects, a dread-inducing drone, or that blasted airhorn. It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, then, that he’s also a trained musician.
This Friday, December 14, Flannelgraph Records will release The Cabinets And The Cupboards, a collection of 12 original songs that Berger recorded between 2000 and 2012. “Written and self-recorded without anticipation that they would ever be released, some of the earlier songs were recorded on a Tascam multitrack cassette recorder,” reads a press release. “The earliest, ‘Friends/In The Breeze’ was written when Vic was still a high school senior.”
“All of the songs on the record are much more earnest and personal than most of my video work,” Berger tells The A.V. Club, “so I’m curious how fans of my videos will react when they hear it.