The music film grows up
It's non sufficiency, these years, to just freeing a concert picture. There's zilch exciting about a gaggle of paint-by-numbers cameramen shooting the guitarist, singer and drummer from a variety of tasteful angles. No one's sledding to be thrilled by a 1 harold Hart Crane shot over the crowd, non in this earned run average of 24/7 music video.And so bands are turning to filmmakers wHO aren't just now TV producers. There's Martin Scorsese, whose Roll Stones documentary is in cinemas crossways United Kingdom. Surface-to-air missile Jones' I Am Trying to Break-dance Your Heart was a revealing portrait of Wilco at ace of the most delicate periods in their life history. And this year REM released a series of off the cuff films stroke by French conductor Vincent Moon.
Moonshine in many slipway exemplifies this "fresh" sort of music video. His Drive Away Shows get followed bands such as Arcade Fire, Sufjan Stevens and Sir Leslie Stephen Malkmus through streets, rooftops, lifts and subways, invariably a one hand-held television camera and a whole world of spontaneousness. He even convinced REM to play along, shot the band as they squeezed into a elevator car and swarm vocalizing through hometown roads. This May we'll see the most finish word picture in time of how Moon and his partners in crime envisage the music docudrama via the melancholy Brooklyn band, the Subject. A Skin, A Nighttime is a motion picture about the Subject, filmed during the recording of Pugilist, their quarter record album. Only the press button makes it clear this won't simply be an indie-rock reading of Behind the Music."A Hide, A Night is to a lesser extent a film about the Subject than a movie about how medicine is made today," it says. "Non with classic rock bluster, or debauched indulgence, simply through and through novelistic attention to detail, a collective implosion of personality, and worried worried nights ..."If the National's lyrics seem to take us inside the homo condition, Vincent Moon's images take us outside, documenting the mantrap of the sounds made by our human peel."True, it sounds a little precious. Only at the heart of it, our human relationship with music commode be a preciously, over-earnest thing. Non whole of us experience listened to a National album straight through, only most of us have stayed up latterly listening to a record on reiterate, imbibing a little too much from the bottleful of whiskey on the table.A Skin, A Night testament be released by Beggars Banquet on Crataegus oxycantha 20, along with a bonus EP of unreleased, demo and live National tracks. Completing the synchronism of influence, the National have been tapped to open part of REM's upcoming American English go. The Editors and the Guillemots play the part when REM hit the UK in Aug.
