Dan Bejar has premiered a new video for “Times Square,” the newest single from his upcoming Destroyer album, Poison Season. The visual, which isdirected by Shayne Ehman, features woodland creatures getting high along with clips of Bejar singing at the camera. The creatures were made with stop-motion animation.
Watch here, and read a statement from Ehman on the video below:
“We ended up just wandering around New York til 3am and the city seemed completely dead. We could have been anywhere, really. I needed to get outside and shoot in natural light in order to serve as a sort of conduit for those ‘forces of nature in love…’ which seem to rule the song. I let the sun do its thing and let the earth do it’s thing and watched time unfold. I watched the clouds unfold and unpack and packup. I was at their mercy, completely.”
Poison Season, which is the follow-up to Kaput, comes out tomorrow, August 28th through Merge Records. It is available to stream in full here.