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February 5, 2009

New Fleet Foxes Video - "Mykonos"

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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

Posted by: j0shsm1th profile link at 02/05/09 10:06 AM  | Reply
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I think this is brilliant but I'm not smart enough to tell. Beautiful stuff, Sean.

Posted by: Birdie at 02/05/09 11:02 AM  | Reply
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South Park aint got nothing on Fleet Foxes.

Posted by: David at 02/05/09 11:17 AM  | Reply
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awesome.

Posted by: sanjulian at 02/05/09 12:11 PM  | Reply
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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.

Posted by: star at 02/05/09 12:28 PM  | Reply
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what the fk is a P4k? that's racist.

Posted by: Neil Diamond Dave Letterman at 02/05/09 1:00 PM  | Reply
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Very creative. I would expect no less from them.

Posted by: maNooshi profile link at 02/05/09 3:13 PM  | Reply
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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.

Posted by: Blue Green Rothko at 02/05/09 3:36 PM  | Reply
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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

Posted by: Cruz at 02/05/09 6:03 PM  | Reply
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i was surprised to see a videoclip for a song that s not on the album! but i gotta say that this is awesome!

Posted by: nadsat profile link at 02/05/09 11:13 PM  | Reply
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