For a musician as imaginative as Dan Deacon, creating a music video to reflect such colorful art is a challenge.
His video for "When I Was Done Dying," the latest single from last month's "Gliss Riffer," solves the problem by having nine animators — Jake Fried, Chad VanGaalen, Dimitri Stankowicz, Colin White, Taras Hrabowsky, Anthony Schepperd, Masanobu Hiraoka, Caleb Wood and KOKOFREAKBEAN — collaborate on the clip. The video debuted on Adult Swim's "Off the Air" early this morning, and you can watch it above.
Earlier this year, Deacon discussed "Dying" for a feature I wrote around the release of the album.
"It's about a narrative of shifting consciousness, and a consciousness in memory being merged," Deacon said of the song. (He also called it the "least stressful to write.") "I was trying to maintain as strong of a narrative as possible while still being completely abstract in concept."
With the help of these animators, Deacon made good on a similar mission for the video, too.