Six Finger Satellite — Simian Fever (2025 Remaster)

JUL 01 2025 · 12:00

Six Finger Satellite — Simian Fever (2025 Remaster) (2025) Director: Christy Karacas & Luca Depardon Era: Post-Punk Revival / Anniversary Reissue Era (2025) - New official video created for the 30th anniversary deluxe remaster of Six Finger Satellite's 1995 Sub Pop album Severe Exposure, merging mid-90s Providence noise-rock with contemporary mixed-media animation. High. This video is a significant archival and cultural artifact: the first-ever official video for a canonical 90s Sub Pop noise-rock track, produced 30 years after original release by two animators with deep ties to the same Providence/RISD creative milieu that produced the band. It documents the intersection of the 90s underground, the Adult Swim animation lineage, and contemporary anniversary reissue culture. The quantitative data — 298 scene changes in 240 seconds, motion score of 8.83 — objectively reflects the formal ambition of the production. Essential for archives documenting 90s alternative rock visual culture, experimental animation, and Sub Pop's catalog stewardship. Context: Six Finger Satellite formed in Providence, RI in 1990 and released Severe Exposure through Sub Pop in 1995, a record that foreshadowed the early-2000s post-punk revival by grafting synthesizers and Moog lines onto caustic, tense post-punk structures. The 2025 Deluxe Edition marks the album's 30th anniversary with remastering by JJ Golden and 35 total tracks. The official video for 'Simian Fever' represents a rare instance of a cult 90s underground track receiving its first-ever purpose-built music video three decades after release, directed by RISD-linked animators whose visual sensibility — hyperkinetic, primal, underground-comix-informed — maps precisely onto the track's animalistic noise-rock character. The commissioning of Karacas and Depardon, both connected to the Providence/RISD creative ecosystem that nurtured the band, adds layers of geographic and aesthetic coherence to what is functionally a cultural preservation act dressed as promotional content. Director notes: The video for 'Simian Fever (2025 Remaster)' was commissioned as part of the promotional campaign for Severe Exposure: Deluxe Edition, the 30th anniversary expanded reissue of Six Finger Satellite's 1995 Sub Pop album, released September 12, 2025. The production mixes animation and live-action footage. Sub Pop's official announcement described it as a 'primal official video.' The remaster itself was handled by JJ Golden. The Karacas–Depardon collaboration extends a working relationship established on the 2024 Les Savy Fav animated video, and carries thematic resonance given Karacas's RISD roots — the same Providence, RI institution connected to Six Finger Satellite's home base. The rapid editorial pace (298 scene changes, 0.81s avg shot length) mirrors both Karacas's signature hyperkinetic animation style and the track's aggressive, animalistic energy, which Trouser Press described as 'animal aggressive and messy, while sharing the synthetic digitone lusts of new wave.'