grizzly bear + grandchildren: while you wait for the others.

Grizzly Bear can do no wrong. I was lucky enough to see them live twice this summer, and both times they killed it. Words don’t do them justice.

Teaming up with Grandchildren (a.k.a. Sean Pecknold), Grizzly Bear’s latest video for “While You Wait For The Others” is basically a tour de force of influenced yet evolved images. It harkens backward while also breaking forward and just basically kicking ass. Pecknold is the brother of Fleet Foxes’ lead singer Robin Pecknold, and (amongst a whole host of great work) they’ve knocked it out of the park thrice before with three amazing vids for Fleet Foxes: “White Winter Hymnal”, “Mykonos”, and “He Doesn’t Know Why.” The WWH video is one of my total favourites of last year…

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Thanks to Kateopolis for the tip.

fleet foxes + grandchildren: mykonos.

The goodness keeps coming. I know I just posted about my undying love for Fleet Foxes last week, but they’ve turned out another incredible vid. If they make it, I will post.

Teaming up again with Sean Pecknold’s Grandchildren, the stop-motion vid for “Mykonos” took 4 weeks to complete and more patience and razor sharp hand-eye coordination than I can fathom.

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Also check out the making of vid:

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fleet foxes + grandchildren: he doesn’t know why.

Fleet Foxes are the shit. Their debut album was easily one of the best, if not the best album, of 2008. Fleet Foxes have a sound that’s undefinable in words and completely their own. Airy and organic – their music feels like folk tales, camp fire songs, whispers, lullabyes, and odes. When I close my eyes it makes me feel like I’m being swept along a hillside. The sound is timeless – like the songs weren’t necessarily written, but have always been there.

Their videos are equally sublime. Directed by Grandchildren (a.k.a. Sean Pecknold, the brother of lead singer and guitarist Robin Pecknold) the video for “He Doesn’t Know Why” is a perfect visual manifestation for this track. It’s like it rolled out of the woods and onto my laptop.

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In case you missed it when it first dropped, Pecknold also directly the awe-inducing vid for Fleet Foxes’ “White Winter Hymnal”…

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