Stadiums & Shrines

High Horse

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Across cloud-lined fields, up among the branches and back down the face of a fall, into the embers of a burning night…

Forgoing any direct narrative, this Brian Papish-directed video simply drifts about in stunning detail, admiring the scenery, allowing our planet’s infinite appeal to convey more than perhaps any character could. The expansive treatment suits “High Horse”, a gorgeous track first Shaken Through and now spaciously revisited, considerably well.

Rainer, the debut LP from Secret Mountains, arrives February 26th via Friends Records.

Mountain for Your Mind / Got Lost

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Keys Cut | Got Lost

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The two pieces above are unrelated, and their pairing was not planned. But sometimes these things have a way of finding each other—such is the serendipity of media. This 2.5D landscape is the work of Chicago-based artist Ji Yeon Lim. Equally immersive, the audio movement is the work of Vancouver-based artist Keys Cut, whose latest EP can be found at bandcamp.

Safety Net

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It’s unclear exactly which dimension is allowing the other to escalate in this prism-ed ‘gray area’, but the interaction is unquestionably enchanted. Urban fantasia looks good on a late night (rapid eye) movement like “Safety Net”. The video’s director, AF-regular Left Arm Single, adds:

“I am fascinated by how two sequences of images put together can dance, bring together and pull apart your thoughts, kneading. The rhythms in the song impress in me a feeling of being somehow submerged, in a muffled, elusive world. There is no sense of direction and all you can do is roll with it.

Rolling down a hill, dirt in your mouth and hair and grass stains on your clothes. You come to as you look up at the sky. It is only afterwards that you discover the joy of remembering. Safety Net tells me a story of turning inwards, of falling off a cliff only to find oneself weightless.”

Mass, a collaborative EP between Chicago friends Mister Lies and Different Sleep, is out now via Absent Fever.

SO LONG (GODISDEAD)

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“And I feel” could just as well be “in a field.” All interpretations work when arranged with such polar emotion; two canons faced at each other, lipstick and blood, flowers and lava—ultimately, it’s a sense of being alive from a song about death.

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