Birdmonster’s new Tom Schick-produced album From The Mountain To the Sea is out early next month. We posted its “Born To Be Your Man” at the beginning of July and here we have the video for another Mountain track “The Iditarod.” We’re told the clip uses SLAM (aka Slide, Animation, Movies), a visual technique invented/coined by Greg Crane. The explanation:

Not too different from your standard stop-motion animation, SLAM takes the aesthetics to a new arty level. 95% of the video was created using digital still photos from a professional/high-end camera. Approximately 1800 shots were painstakingly and meticulously pasted together to establish that “motion.”

Kind of like the technique used by Polyphonic Spree and Kaki King, though their processes didn’t sound like a Chuck Palahniuk novel. Off to the races:

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Remember Birdmonster? If you read blogs in 2006 you do. It’s been a little while since we’ve heard from the guys. They rode a wave of blogposts straight into some bloglash, and then they blogged until blog in a blog blog. Point is, they’re one of those bands (like old showmates Tapes ‘N Tapes and Clap Your Hands) whose bio’s been carved by the double edged sword of early and often internet attention, and here they are two years later with a new record (From The Mountain To the Sea) and a new label (The FADER Label) and a not Bon Jovi cover.

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