Synopsis

Metronomy perform against a bizarre, handmade backdrop of erupting lava, fire, toy trains, and psychedelic animation. Women in brightly colored zentai suits dance through the surreal setting, turning the video into a playful collision of human movement and pulsing visual effects. Projected slides interrupt the action with speech bubbles, lyric fragments, and punning words that echo the song's sounds. The result is less a conventional narrative than a fast-moving collage that mirrors the track's nervous romantic excitement.

Factoids & Trivia

• The video was made for the "My Heart Rate Rapid" single, released on April 7, 2008, ahead of the September 8, 2008 release of the album "Nights Out."

• Its visual language combines practical performance with deliberately artificial imagery: zentai costumes, projected slides, miniature trains, flames, lava flows, and psychedelic animation.

• The projected speech bubbles do not always reproduce the lyrics literally. Some use words that sound like the lyrics, adding a visual layer of playful mishearing to the song.

• The single was issued as an EP containing the original recording, "Matthias Gathering," and remixes by Primary 1 and Maton.

• The official video was later uploaded to Metronomy's YouTube channel on February 22, 2011, helping preserve the clip's early, eccentric visual identity for a wider online audience.