New Grizzly Bear Video - "Ready, Able"
Grizzly Bear's Amazon-approved Veckatimst has birthed another aesthetically appealing video. (At the beginning of September it was Sean Pecknold's fencing vignettes for "While You Wait For The Others," but the one folks will likely remember most featured exploding choir boy faces.) Here, artist Allison Schulnik creates a smeary rainbow-dripped Claymation landscape for Late Night favorite "Ready, Able." It takes me all the way back to "Knife" for its surreal mix of sadness, repulsion, and a kind of otherworldly beauty.
In case you were wondering, I'll only write about New Moon bands today.
Veckatimest is out via Warp.
Posted at 12:47 PM by brandon in Video
Tags: Grizzly Bear
seriously wild stuff
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omg this video must have taken ages to be make!
AMAZING as usual! <3
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Reminds me of that f-ed up Mark Twain claymation from when I was a kid. And 'tussin.
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beautiful.
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Michel Gondry on PCP and LSD...
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I prefer the play-doh technique...A lot of digtal things aren't going to age so well...
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ready, able is my favorite song on veckatimest. dare i watch the video?
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absolutely amazing.
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that was exactly what I saw when I did shrooms.
crazy.
ilovethis video.
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This is for everyone that used to mix up all the colors of their Play-doh as kids.
Stellar video.
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This is kinda creepy, trippy and seemingly unrelated to the song.... I love it!!!
I'm giving it my second favorite video of the year, right after Ramona Fall's I Say Fever. These last couple of weeks have been very productive for the awesome video world.
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I like to imagine that if the kids in the movie Hook had made a music video with their imaginary food instead of having a food fight, this is what would've been created. Love it. Long live Grizzly Pan.
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Sumptuous work here. Consistently great videos from this band. BRAVO
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This video doesn't connect with the song all that much, but it is nevertheless an amazing artistic feat. Such a vision behind this!
This is on par with the Weird Fishes/Arpeggi video in terms of eery, bizarre, beautiful claymation talent.
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Once again, Grizzly Bear masterfully grabs the attention of every blog and music site for the entire weekend by dropping this video on a Friday afternoon. As they are well aware, they will get a Pitchfork news write-up and it will stay at the top until Sunday. Well done!
I love this band, but will anyone else please admit that they are PR people as much as they are a band. (Jay-Z at their concert!?!?! No Way! Mind blowing! Actually, he attends many concerts like that...the difference is, other bands don't send out press releases immediately after it happens.) It's no coincidence that they are written about on sites like this and Pitchfork more than any other band. Yes, they are good, but so are many other bands that don't grab the spotlight like these dudes. GB know how to get a great deal of attention...their label, management and PR are a well-oiled machine that rivals any major label I've seen. I think it's admirable, actually! What's remarkable is that nobody seems to notice they're doing it and believe that the meteoric rise of the band and the amount they are written about came about organically.
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You're an idiot if you think Jay-Z was a pr stunt. Jay went on TV himself the next day and decided to talk about them. As for the news that he and B were at the show, there were 8K twittering Brooklynites there, news gets out.
Amazing video
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That is one of the dumbest assumptions I've ever heard. I'm pretty sure people understand that when a band has a lot of press it's because they have good PR people as well as talent. You aren't on to anything new. I can't believe you noticed how they drop big news on Fridays, what an eagle eye you have.
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Is it just me or am the only one that finds this band pretentious and boring?
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you a poonsahsa. shut the eff up
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they definitely have the best videos of this year
they're totally not what you expect when listening to them on the album yet they still fit them so well
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Those Plasticine penises are pretty huge, proportionally speaking.
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this is the best comment i've ever read.
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This has the abstract in mind, like a continuous art flow on the history/science channel. Very exotic and imaginative.
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face becomes playdough....my antidrug
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