Our latest Track Of The Week is Water Over Sex, the second single from Lala Lala‘s forthcoming album The Lamb.
The new LP from the Chicago-based project of Lillie West is due on September 28th, while the video for this track was co-directed by Matthew James-Wilson and illustrator Ginette Lapalme. “I know Ginette from the comics scene in Toronto and, since Lillie is a fan (with her stickers on her guitar case and a few tattoos of her drawings), I wanted to work on an animated music video with her for the new album,” James-Wilson explains.
“We spent a week straight shooting using fabric, photocopies, Ginette’s collection of miniatures and knick-knacks, and stuff we found at 99 cent stores in Chinatown. The video follows a lamb doll (which Ginette made) continually daydreaming about the objects around her while she tries to live a relaxing life.”
“We wanted to sort of indirectly reference the conflict in the song about how your lifestyle changes after you quit drinking. Since we all live in three different cities and couldn’t film Lillie for it, I asked Lillie to send over webcam footage of her singing the song that we could animate over.”
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