Royal Canoe

"Birthday" (video)

BY Alex HudsonPublished Nov 14, 2013

In what is surely one of the creepiest children's birthday parties we've ever seen, eclectic Winnipeg pop combo Royal Canoe have shared a music video for their song "Birthday."

The song is a quirky pop tune that veers between beat-driven indie rock and pitch-shifted hip-hop. The clip starts off unassumingly enough, with a birthday celebration at a diner, but things take a dark and surreal turn with an old man's face pasted on a young woman's body, a cook licking burgers, a kid drinking a mysterious blue liquid, and a man getting struck with some sort of air bullet.

Scroll past Royal Canoe's tour schedule to watch it [via Noisey].

The song comes from this year's Today We're Believers.

Tour dates:

11/14 London, UK - The Black Heart

11/15 Brighton, UK - The Hope

11/16 Manchester, UK - Fallow Cafe

11/20 Brooklyn, NY - Glasslands Gallery

11/21 Kingston, ON - Queens University

11/22 Quebec City, QC - Le Pantoum

11/23 Montreal, QC - M For Montreal @ Divan Orange

11/24 Toronto, ON - The Garrison

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