#Watch Sasami’s Video for Daniel Johnston Cover, Directed by Patti Harrison

Sasami has shared a cover of Daniel Johnston’s song “Sorry Entertainer.” It’s an extremely heavy rendition of the song and it arrives with a chaotic new music video directed by comedian and actress Patti Harrison and Alan Resnick. Check out the video below.

Sasami discussed the new cover in a statement:

I made my last album when I was in a very emotionally vulnerable and tender place, but after a couple years of touring those same subtle, more sensitive songs, the live show became louder and more volatile. A bit before the pandemic took hold I was really getting back into metal and nu metal, so a couple months into quarantine I made an acoustic version of the System of a Down song “Toxicity.” My sadness ripened into anger throughout 2020, and deeper into it I started experimenting with a heavier palette and decided to perform the inverse exercise of metallicizing an acoustic song. “Sorry Entertainer” is my take on mixing the desperation of being a hopeless and powerless artist and the extremely powerful sounds of a metal band. Like giving a toddler a flamethrower… or a fullstack.

Sasami’s self-titled album arrived in 2019. Read “What Patti Harrison Is Listening to Right Now” on the Pitch.

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