New Blitzen Trapper Video - "Furr"

SXStereogum alum Blitzen Trapper put out the very fine Furr album last year, releasing the title track as a freebie. In posting Brandon said "The track's mellow and straight-up folky until they let a harmonica in with a few electronics, making it a little coyote spacey but still pastoral." I was really taken by their performance on Conan, which cut the digital squiggles and embraced the back porch stomp of it all, with a new round of earthy Trapper harmonies in tow. Director Jade Harris does the track proud here, sticking to the lyrics with a sepia photo flipbook of Blitzens and lupines and mice on magical beanstalks. Solid.

(via P4K.tv)

Blitzen Trapper - "Furr" (MP3)

Furr is out via Sub Pop. This is what happened when we had Blitzen meet Carrie Brownstein. Speaking of, the Sleater-Kinney siren screened a rather hilarious ThunderAnt short with Fred Armisen last night as part of the Max Silvestri-hosted PopRally comedy event at MoMA last night. (Also showing: Nick Kroll and Soundfix stalwarts Gabe & Jenny and Joe Mande). The comedians screened responses to predesignated old-timey silent films, Fred & Carrie lampooning living room film critics while making me never want to use the word "fraught" ever again. Hopefully Videogum will have a look at that sometime soon.

Posted at 12:40 PM by amrit in MP3, Video
Tags: Blitzen Trapper

15 Comments

so. good. love.

Posted by: Mr. Sean at 01/07/09 1:25 PM  | Reply
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Yay Blitzen Trapper! What an excellent video for my favorite BT song. This album was criminally underrated.

Posted by: Deezey at 01/07/09 1:29 PM  | Reply
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I put it on my top 10 (click below). I'm surprised it took this long for them to release a video.

Posted by: Johnnyboy  in reply to Deezey's comment at 01/07/09 2:05 PM  | Reply
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These guys any good live?

Posted by: JoeyT at 01/07/09 1:41 PM  | Reply
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I haven't seen them yet, but I plan catching them when they play NYC next month.

Posted by: Deezey  in reply to JoeyT's comment at 01/07/09 2:16 PM  | Reply
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saw them open for the hold steady in austin, the day before Wild Mountain Nation came out. they were absolutely incredible live.

Posted by: heyheyhey  in reply to JoeyT's comment at 01/07/09 2:27 PM  | Reply
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Caught them in Boise, and thoroughly enjoyed them. It was a Wednesday at a small club, and they still came with a lot of energy.

Posted by: Mr. Wizard  in reply to JoeyT's comment at 01/07/09 8:33 PM  | Reply
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They're fantastic live. I think I've seen them four or five times?

Posted by: starrynights  in reply to JoeyT's comment at 01/08/09 2:44 AM  | Reply
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Furr = Top 5 of 2008

Posted by: The Rat at 01/07/09 1:44 PM  | Reply
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I really really like this video, it fits the song quite nicely!

Posted by: Evan at 01/07/09 1:45 PM  | Reply
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I don't love the video, but the song is good and the band is excellent. #1 album of 2008 for me!

Posted by: Brooks at 01/07/09 2:02 PM  | Reply
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i saw em open for iron and wine and they were ok. nothing to get crazy over.

Posted by: d@ve at 01/07/09 2:48 PM  | Reply
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Great album, great song, great video!

Posted by: starrynights at 01/08/09 2:47 AM  | Reply
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very great song

Posted by: king vidor at 01/08/09 5:38 PM  | Reply
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on conan they "cut the digital squiggles"? then what was that dude with the synthesizer doing?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzCi6qr5qKw

Posted by: grover at 01/09/09 9:51 AM  | Reply
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