On the opposite end of the video spectrum is Blitzen Trapper’s “Wild Mountain Nation”—a goony, surreal, cut-n-paste animation job that starts on the Williamette River and ends in outer space, proceeding like an acid-dipped Monty Python cartoon the entire way. Said Chris McCann of the song in his extended look at the album in our pages: “Singer Eric Earley is rounding up believers, gathering the tribes into the proposed nation of the album’s title, both a rural utopia and a frenetic confederation of freaks and loners.”

Released this summer, Wild Mountain Nation is a ragged and rangy collection of avant-country weirdness that doesn’t fully live up to the promise of this song but is still pretty damn fun. It also makes me think of the song “Wild Mountain Honey,” a gooey, guitar/sitar bong-ripped raga that’s one of Steve Miller Band’s finest moments: