Watch WAAX's Debut Music Video For 'Wisdom Teeth'

Brisbane-bred rock outfit WAAX have unveiled their very first music video, for debut single Wisdom Teeth, as a fitting finish to an undeniably incendiary year.

Having spent much of 2014 building buzz and growing their reputation for hectic but polished live shows through gigs with peers such as Stonefield, Guitarwolf, White Lung and The Delta Riggs, WAAX have capitalised on the rising tide through a stellar display at September's BIGSOUND Live showcase series with the eclectic, colourful clip for Wisdom Teeth. It's something of a collision of the modern and retro, matched with glitchy flickers and cuts and shifting colours to visually echo the song's copious stockpiles of energy.

The video was directed, edited and animated by local video wizard Jaymis, who said of the project, "Wisdom Teeth has such an evocative then/now sound, so I wanted to create a clip which feels like a '90s music video, but uses modern gear like robotic camera control and LED screens."

"I tried to forget all of my modern trickery and use older animation techniques to keep the feel as 'early computer graphics' as possible," he said.

The band and director used all sorts of technical trickery and old-timey techniques to achieve the final result — "In all, we shot about 150 takes with the song split into five different sections," Jaymis explained — but the "prohibitively time-consuming" method unarguably yielded some pretty wonderful audiovisual madness. Behold the effort below.

WAAX have a couple more shows left for 2014 — they hit Alhambra Lounge with APES this Friday, December 12, and back up to hit The Factory, Maroochydore, on Saturday. Southward-bound, they're off to the Captain Cook Hotel in Paddington on Thursday, December 18, and follow that up with an appearance on December 19 at the World Bar's Not So Silent Night shindig with APES, The Preatures DJs, The Cairos DJs, High-Tails and Jesse Davidson.

For more information about when and where you can catch WAAX before the year's out, hit theGuide or see The Music App.