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Harry Kinds has all the time been one to paint exterior the traces as an artist, and his newest music video is barely the newest instance.
Within the video for “Music For a Sushi Restaurant,” which premiered on Thursday, the previous One Route star seems as a mer-creature – half man, half squid (or is it an octopus?) – who finds himself within the kitchen of a sushi restaurant as cooks throughout him chop up and fry numerous aquatic animal for connoisseur dishes.
Kinds is at first stunned in any respect the exercise, till his singing ultimately causes him to take the higher hand – however not earlier than he’s tempted by one of many cooks holding a bucket of small fish, one in every of which Kinds catches in his mouth.
Quickly, the “X Issue” alum turns into a lounge act, of types, at Gill’s Sushi, the place he’s perched on what seems to be a sea rock whereas shirtless and carrying seashell necklaces, his white and pinkish squid tentacles hanging lengthy beneath his torso.
Except for taking the title of the observe fairly actually, the weird video is by some means becoming for the catchy tune, which closely options trumpets and Kinds’ distinctive crooning.
Standout moments embody Kinds’ mer-creature appearing like a little bit of a diva backstage on the divey institution, getting a manicure and having everybody wait on him hand and, nicely, tentacle.
“Music For a Sushi Restaurant” is the third single off Kinds’ third studio album “Harry’s Home,” launched in Could. The tune was launched as a single earlier this month.