Triumph Of Lethargy Skinned Alive To Death's new video for "The Dirty Street" premiers at Stereogum!
Triumph Of Lethargy Skinned Alive To Death new album on Don't Stop Believin' Records, Some Of Us Are In This Together, hit shelves last tuesday. Today, the brand new video for "The Dirty Street" premiered over at Stereogum! The video was directed by Clyde Peterson of Do It For The Girls Productions (videos for Quasi, Laura Veirs, Thao & the Get Down Stay Down, Horse Feathers and more) and the technique used to make the video is quite unique.
Via Clyde:
"It’s obvious that in the past year, the “Hipstamatic” effect seems to be the most popular look around. From the intro of True Blood to every hipster Facebook photo, there are light leaks and saturated colors. I had been tinkering with the idea for a few months, pondering how to mount an Iphone onto a tripod, to shoot an animated film through the Hipstamatic application. This became a real possibility when the application upgrade included the ability to shoot at a higher resolution (1500x1500).
I searched archive.org for material for a new music video for Seattle band, Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death, and found a great film entitled “Jealousy”. It was a film from the 1950s, part of a series entitled Marriage for Moderns. There was no audio to the film, so I am not quite sure what the lesson of the 15-minute film was. A woman suspects her husband is cheating. She paces and waits at home for about 10 minutes. He appears to be late. When he finally arrives, they fight. He storms out. She sobs on the couch.
I edited the film down to a five-minute short, set to the music. I then exported the film to a QuickTime, and began to construct an awkward structure in the studio. I searched my house for a tool to secure my phone. I estimated it would take about 30 hours to reshoot the entire film frame by frame and I would need the phone to stay in place. I managed to wedge my phone into a space that was the handle of a milk crate. From there, I stacked a chair on the table, the milk crate tripod below and in front of it. I placed my projector on the chair and angled it down by shoving a sweatshirt under it, in order to match the angle of the camera. I turned off all of the lights and projected the QuickTime onto the wall, frame by frame, re framing and re-photographing every other still for 30 hours.
From there, I imported the stills off my phone, adjusted them in After Effects and exported Quicktimes to replace the low-resolution original footage in Final Cut Pro, resulting in the final music video.
The setup used to shoot this film is pictured here."
If you haven't heard the album yet, want to speak with the band, or need anything at all, please do let me know!
Thanks,
Nathan
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What the press is saying:
"Triumph Of Lethargy Skinned Alive To Death’s sixth proper LP Some Of Us Are In This Together is a sludgy, slow-mo, pained, ultimately transcendent collection." Stereogum
"Melodic, mournful and supremely talented at making songs, Triumph Of Lethargy Skinned Alive To Death is the brainchild of two veterans who have yet to take a musical misstep." RCRD LBL
"This is filthy beauty. It's ambient, it's noise, it's spoken, it's screaming, it's melancholy, and it's slightly over it." Ink 19
"Frankly, that's what I love about this album, the raw climbing landscapes of psychedelic guitars cradling Moody (and Zollo's) pinpoint and relatable lyrics." Sonic Dissonance
"With Some Of Us Are In This Together the drone punk four piece put forth their best recording effort yet." SSG Music
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