Kevin Bronson on July 7th, 2014

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The good, the bad, the ugly … and the pixelated? That’s the bizarre filter through which the cinematic Old West is filtered in the video for EFG’s new slab of psych-rock “Singing Bridges.” The video is the work of artist, photographer and filmmaker Sam Falls of San Diego, who let his digital demons take over old footage from “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” “How the West Was Won” and “Hang ‘Em High.” It’s something akin to your TV going haywire at 3 a.m. while you’re watching Encore Westerns – or maybe it hasn’t gone haywire at all, and the 1s and 0s have just taken over your brain. The song itself is the first single from the pedigreed trio of Imaad Wasif, Josh Garza and Tom Biller, who in previous incarnations were known as Electric Flower Group. Like much of their album in progress, “Singing Bridges” is next-level – a rager of a psych-rock song featuring Garza’s thunder, Wasif’s lightning and Biller in full gallop. And Charles Bronson is pretty cool too.