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Lily and the Parlour Tricks
Happy Halloween, folks. As a treat for you, we're premiering Lily and the Parlour Tricks' creepy new video for "Murder Song," a slice of throwback girl-group pop that's based on a horrific true crime.
"I read a book called
True Crime: An American Anthology, put together by the author Harold Schechter. They are short pieces, some of them essays by writers like Truman Capote and others case studies, trial documents and news articles related to any number of American murders; some famous, some not," singer Lily Claire tells Spinner. "There is an article from an 18th-century New York newspaper, about a man who heard voices in his head telling him to 'kill his idols,' so he threw his bible in the fire and murdered his entire family. He ran to his sister's neighboring farm and she asked what was wrong and he said, 'I've done something horrible: I threw the bible away.' I couldn't get over the whole thing, both the story itself and the graphically blunt way in which it was written. I wanted the song to be story-telling in the same way."
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