Premiere: Watch Fox In The Garden Throw A Trippy Makeout Party in ‘Coma Weed’ Video

Mumbai indie rock band Fox In The Garden fill their new music video “Coma Weed” with disco balls, friends, plenty of colorful confetti and a “coma booth,” making for a trippy, desire-filled take from their second EP Natural Habitat (out November 26th).

The five-minute track steps up Fox In The Garden’s wavy, psychedelic sound, with the band now comprising singer-guitarist and songwriter Soutrik Chakraborty aka Zico, bassist Shalom Benjamin, guitarist Utkarsh Jaiswal and new live members like guitarist/synth artist Satyajit Chatterji and drummer Suyash Medh. Natural Habitat still features outgoing members including drummers Avinash Chordia and Dhruv Sarker, plus keyboardist Ishan Lal.

For “Coma Weed,” the band called on director Aditi Sivaraman, chief assistant director Ritwik Ghosh and director of photography Paul J Varghese and shot with 40 of their friends in a 1,200 square feet flat in Mumbai. “It was totally bootstrapped, in the sense that we created a whole set with two scenarios inside my house. But it was fun!” Zico says. Art direction was taken on by Gayatri Kathuria and Veerja Pandya.

The band founder details how there are two “scenarios” depicted in the video – the subconscious of their party’s attendees are seen in the “coma booth” and elsewhere, we see what’s really playing out. Zico adds, “It’s like a look at the person they love is transporting them to this made-up haven inside their brains where they’re wholly together. It was our way of visualizing that feeling of being totally overcome by love and the out-of-body experience you may have the moment you touch your paramour.” The artist is all praise for the crew to get inebriated cast members in line for the filming, including a mannequin challenge that’s seen in the trippy video.

Natural Habitat comes about three years after their debut EP Sunny Boy, and Zico says he’s worked on this record “tirelessly over the last year or so.” He adds about the change in sound on the new EP, “I wanted to pursue a sound which was in high-fidelity as a source but lo-fi as an aesthetic, most often than not we forget that sounding ‘ lo-fi ‘ has nothing to do with the recording process, Natural Habitat is a record that almost has everything played live apart from the synths which are in the box. It sets this record apart from the last one.”

With the EP out this week, Zico says they’re working on tour dates to play not just new songs, but also material from Sunny Boy and their next EP. He adds, “We’re working towards tour dates in early 2024 in the first half of the year, stay tuned for that. There might be a little busking stage where me and the guys get up to play stripped down versions of our songs as well.”

Watch the video for “Coma Weed” below. Stream/buy ‘Natural Habitat’ on Bandcamp.