Wednesday(September 22), the vocally beautiful and lilting band, Fleet Foxes, released a new stop-motion video for their song, “Featherweight,” which was directed by Sean Pecknold, the longtime video director of the band, and brother to the group’s founder, Robin Pecknold.
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Watch the video, which is the 10th directed by Sean, below.
The elaborate new music video, which comes one year after the Seattle-born band’s release of its latest LP, Shore (2020), is dark, tragic, and lovely. To create it, Sean collaborated with several artists, including animator Eileen Kholheep, a veteran of the television show, Robot Chicken.
“Eileen has an incredible attention to detail and ended up bringing the characters to life in a way I could never have done by myself,” said Sean in a press release.
Of his working relationship with his brother, Sean explained, “Robin and I grew up together, watching a lot of the same movies and animations. So, I think we are able to collaborate in a way that is very trusting and intuitive. We are connected on a similar wavelength.”
See a previously released video from Sean and Fleet Foxes for the song, “The Shrine / An Argument,” here:
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