“The Worse Things Get” by “The Flat Nasty” is one of the most creative and awesome videos to emerge so far this year. The song itself steps slowly into your consciousness by means of a rather stunning, lone bass line, soon accompanied by a characterful and part mellow part rock-leading vocal. The whole thing makes for a pretty striking and memorable audio-visual experience.

There’s a notable amount of space within the instrumentation, something not all that common in rock music. The effect of this is that you can really notice and appreciate each element that makes up the song – the leading vocal, the passion, the imagery, the riffs, the drum line, and the structure. The track is composed of numerous different sections, not necessarily conforming to the standard, expected, radio-worthy building blocks of mainstream music, and not needing to. Each part leads well into its follower, and all in all the arrangement makes for a thoroughly enjoyable and meaningful few minutes of music.