Atlanta indie rock band Mamalarky share the animated video for their new single 'Shining Armor' taken from their upcoming new record Pocket Fantasy. The track is an energetic blast of guitar pop with complex, erratic riffs and warbled noise sections that contains a palpable sense of fun and enjoyment that calls to mind bands like Deerhoof. Lyrically the track is a response to comments the band received that are laced with misogyny and gatekeeping around music; the band skilfully morph this pointless negativity into a joyful piece of music. Singer Livvy Bennett writes, “This song goes out to conveniently anonymous YouTube haters. ‘Shining Armor’ is an invitation for anyone who has shit to say about how I play guitar to go ahead and reveal themselves and play a little song for us! When I wrote this I was getting a bunch of comments about my gender and appearance and how that corresponds with how I play guitar. The only response was to convert that anger into something that’s genuinely so fun to play." The colourful stop-motion animated video that accompanies the video is a visual interpretation of the ideas in the song: "Alex Futtersak took this idea and crafted a whole world around it, where our music is essentially breaking a curse over these angry knights in armor. I actually sent him some DIY motion capture from my room so some of the moves are true to form." Pocket Fantasy is set for release on September 30th on Fire Talk Records. -Toby Evans-Jesra