In the video for “I’ve Been Life,” a searching squelch-funker from his long-in-the-works 2012 sophomore album Landing On A Hundred, the idiosyncratic soul auteur Cody ChesnuTT co-stars with a parade of elaborately masked dancing, fire-spitting guys on stilts. These guys stop traffic when the strut into the Brooklyn street, and that just makes sense; I’d hit the brakes if I saw one, too. Watch the vivid video at Rolling Stone.

Landing On A Hundred is out now on ChesnuTT’s own Vibration Vineyard.