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The new video for Crystal Castles' song "Vanished" (our personal favorite) is currently up on Street Carnage. That's the only place you can see it right now, and we have to say it's pretty rad. It was directed by D+T contributor Derrick Beckles, aka Pinky. Here's his press release (and we use that term lightly):

Presenting the debut and only home of the Crystal Castles video for VANISHED directed by PINKY of TV CARNAGE along with the loving involvement of Sir Vernon Chatman. Crystal Castles asked to have a video done without them appearing in it, so we discussed creating something that would involve eerie stupidity that warmed the soul and could possibly be turned into a sitcom or BET comedy special. We arrived at this. A video meticulously rammed together in the last week of May 2008 (including awesome choreography by Megan Kain) and shot at Union Pool in Brooklyn, NY. The video has won some sort of thing in Berlin and is apparently sluttishly embraced by the Europeans. God bless their cotton socks. Special thanks to Ari Fishman of Petite Monster who is the only maniac who can produce this sort of thing at a moments notice. Please to enjoy the video, watch it many times and pass it on.

Click HERE to see the video in full. --SK

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