The apocalypse is coming, brought to you by an army of dagger-yielding dancing zombies in polka-dot bodysuits. In the dystopian video by Canadian artist Marcel Dzama for Will Butler’s “Something’s Coming,” the blood-stained creatures shake frantically to the music, a delightfully weird blend of noisy punk guitar riffs, catchy disco beats, jazzy piano notes and Dadaist lyrics. The musician, known as Arcade Fire’s multi-instrumentalist and the younger brother of lead singer Win Butler, pays homage to ‘American music,’ his new solo record Policy channels influences as eclectic as the Violent Femmes, Bob Dylan, Smokey Robinson and Ghostface Killah.

“This album is like a dangerous layer cake,” says the artist from his South Brooklyn apartment, where he spends half the year. “I come from the world of poetry where you want to slice and slice and slice until there’s nothing left. The album shows different views on the same world - there’s a lot of desperation, some of the people feel abandoned or like they have abandoned people – there’s a lot of teenage emotions where you feel that it’s the world against you.”

Butler's old friend Marcel Dzama gives life to this dark, twisted vision, mixing together b-rolls from recent experiments, including a video for a disco song originally conceived to star Kim Gordon; the artist himself even appears playing guitar. Butler added the lyrics and stars, dancing in a metal armor cask and getting repeatedly stabbed in the chest. “It’s about the ominous human gloom with a disco beat, it’s the apocalypse but we can dance.”