RAC & Alex Ebert’s “Tear You Down” Video: Idolator Premiere

Written By THE MARTIN AGENCY

14 April 2015, Idolator. By Robbie Daw

RAC has delivered a truly thought-provoking short film experience for Strangers cut “Tear You Down,” a pair-up with Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros vocalist Alex Ebert.

Here we see main RAC man Andre Allen Anjos falling into the ranks of a religious collective after receiving an invite from a pretty young woman. Andre arrives at a house that serves as the base for the group, where he passes through an initiation process, and finally is accepted as a member.

The police eventually raid the collective’s home, but there’s a twist ending that poses a specific question: Whether you belong to a religious cult or not, don’t we all serve the purpose of some larger group or other in the end?

Continue to Idolator.

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