VANGAALEN sagt zu „Samurai Sword“: „I had just ripped a bunch of old leaking copper pipe out of my basement in a reno job that I jumped into willy nilly. Realizing how magical the pipes sounded, I put them on some dirty styrofoam and banged out the janky beat that introduces the song! Garbage is life.”

Er fährt fort: „It just spilled out in a couple minutes. I didn’t try to stop it because I was smiling like I was just cruising through my neighbourhood. Simple like a sandbox. An ode to the simplicity. It’s hard to let things be simple. But simple is easy on the mind, and being jovial in song is something I find really difficult. Why? What?”

Das Video zu „Samurai Sword“ gibt den Zuschauern einen Einblick in CHAD VANGAALENs surrealistische Welt und erweitert die 2:04-Albumversion zu einer herrlich schrägen Extended Version mit einer Laufzeit von 3:39. Er erklärt dazu: „I was drawing black and white plant backgrounds for this song because of the great old samurai movies of the past. I like how nature sometimes takes the lead. I was getting all knotted in my mind about the sky. I looked at my dad’s watercolor paintings of a sky, and felt like I couldn’t get the feel right. So, I just borrowed his sky for a scene and then I realized that my dad’s paintings were perfect and already full of real life energy. I used them to finish the video and felt like we got to go on this quest together. In my mind. Fuck time.”

VANGAALEN hat auch den „Samurai Sword Scavenger Hunt“-Wettbewerb ins Leben gerufen, mit Easter Eggs, die im gesamten Video versteckt sind. Er teilt jede Woche eine Liste mit einigen dieser versteckten Objekte und fordert die Fans heraus, sie zu finden. Er sagt: „To stop myself going squirrely over the last few months, I started hiding things as I animated this video.”