“The Shrine/An Argument” is the sprawling eight-minute suite from near the end of Fleet Foxes sophomore album Helplessness Blues; it’s the one with the free-jazz horn freakout. The new video for the song is a haunting and sometimes exciting animated piece about some sort of carnivorous antelope traveling across a hostile, fantastical landscape. Monsters abound. Sean Pecknold, the brother of Fleet Foxes frontman Robin, directed the video; he’s also one of the two animators. Watch it below.
Helplessness Blues is out now on Sub Pop.
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I miss when Stereogum use to post about real artists like Beyonce, Drake, and Rihanna.
Get over it, some enjoy listening to the happy pop hiphop sound of Beyonce and others enjoy the low tempo of modern folk rock and *gasp* some enjoy listening to both.
i’m a little upset i could only like this once
*Drools.*
I didn’t much care for Sean Pecknold’s animation for the FF tour, but this is really haunting.
It’s like a creation myth. Gorgeous work.
Well here’s some food for thought. I don’t have any idea what the video means. I find the animation very choppy and hard to focus on because the saturation is way overdone. Also it is creepy as hell so i dont’ know what all you wannabe hipsters are talking about. I hated this video and this song. I loved fleet foxes first album and then this piece of non art turned me off. So pull your heads out of your butt and quit jumping on the bandwagon!
I think it has a lot of cultural references within the video.