The newest Fleet Foxes footage is this Sean Pecknold-created video for Sun Giant‘s “Mykonos,” a song last heard live from New York. Robin’s brother also handled the art direction for the satisfyingly creepy “White Winter Hymnal,” but this clearly isn’t nepotism: The guy clearly has a knack for animating Fleet Foxes sounds. Here, Sean casts Joan Miró-esque shapes and earth-tone shadows (and mustaches) against rolling paper hills, a paper forest, and some doorway portal where origami castles and strange little creatures spring to life and then disassemble as part of a mysterious dance.
The occasion for the video: “Mykonos” will be FF’s next single with White Antelope’s “False Knight Of The Road” as its b-side. In case you’re curious how the video was created, here’s this as well:
The Sun Giant EP is out via the still-indie Sub Pop.
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who knew triangles could be so eerie
I think this is brilliant but I’m not smart enough to tell. Beautiful stuff, Sean.
South Park aint got nothing on Fleet Foxes.
awesome.
Those two little white triangles really destroyed everything.
It was awesome how it could all be interpreted as real things telling a story, while at the same time it was all just moving shapes.
what the fk is a P4k? that’s racist.
Very creative. I would expect no less from them.
Well it’s no “Wavelength”…but it’s got some nice stuff going on… He(brother) should work for Seseme Street and help make it funky again.
eh i guess this is the best their indie label could do, but this could definitely have been better seeing as it was one of their best singles of the year and probably the one with the most crossover appeal . . . meh
i was surprised to see a videoclip for a song that s not on the album! but i gotta say that this is awesome!