One of the great things about art of all kinds—whether we're talking the ever-uplifting films of Lars Von Trier or the beatifully sunny novels of Cormac McCarthy—is the way you can instantly be transported to a better place. 

And god knows, this is the time of year where anywhere not named Vancouver starts to seem appealing. With the falls rains officially upon us, now's the time that Pacific Northwest denziens spent their afternoons dreaming about escaping to someplace a little less grey and dreary. Like, you know, Pripyat, Ukraine. Or Glasgow, Scotland. Or Dikson, Russia. 

That reality makes Milk's new "Melty" video a great early Christmas present. Or, if you prefer on the grounds that Xmas is a horrid capitalist conspiracy, a welcome late-November fall-shit-show diversion. The track is from Mattress Ranch, the full-length followup to 2016's Late Bloomer. (That's right, Late Bloomer—two words we can longer hear together without thinking of the fabled The Office UK line "Does it offend you, yeah?" ). 

To close one's eye is to be transported to a world where the Meat Puppets, 13th Floor Elevators, and Flying Burrito Brothers roam the deserts of Arizona and Texas in a perpetual peyote-dazed haze. 

Then there's the video. If you're the kind of seasonal saddo who has no time for self-generated mental movies right now because you're too busy trying to get the fucking Philips HF3520 Wake-Up Light Coloured Sunrise Simulation lamp to work, proceed directory to the clip for "Melty". 

Animated by Courtney Garvin of the Courtneys, the clip rolls out a landcape dotted with Mexico-issue cactuses. rolling sand dunes, and sunbleached skeletons. It's a place that, right about now, we'd all be lucky to escape to.