Scout EP out now on Pod / Inertia Music
Calpurnia have today released an animated video for their song ‘Wasting Time‘ off of their Scout EP which came out earlier this year. The video was created by animator, Martin MacPherson – an award-winning animator who has worked on all the Calpurnia videos thus far and created the animation for My Dead Dad’s Porno Tapes and has recently worked with Washed Out and Flying Lotus.
Watch ‘Wasting Time’ below:
MacPherson spoke about the video saying “Certain music has a way of evoking vivid memories from your past. Good memories, bad memories, weird ones, too. I wanted this video to depict a story of music bringing a civilisation, frozen in time, back to life with all those beautiful, ugly and strange memories being revived, at least for the length of the song. I think there can be a danger to living in the past too much however and at a certain point it’s time to move on. I chose to show this by drawing spaceships and strange, melting, monsters and Calpurnia were super cool with letting me do so. I was inspired by Jason Bartel’s cover art for the band’s EP and wanted to continue that aesthetic throughout as a post-cataclysmic version of the world you see in the art for ‘City Boy’ and ‘Greyhound’. I did my best to hide some other Calpurnia reference’s throughout the video as well that you may have to go back and look for in case you missed them the first time around.”
The band’s lead vocalist and guitarist Finn Wolfhard noted “We are really happy to make an animated video and happier still to have worked with Marty. His style is very unique and I don’t think there is anything else out there that looks like this video. Marrying his images to our music is super cool.”
Scout is everything you’d want it to be, 6 infectious guitar driven tracks, influenced by everyone from Mac DeMarco to the Rolling Stones. The band – which in addition to Wolfhard includes lead guitarist Ayla Tesler-Mabe, a six-string prodigy whose bedroom-shredding viral videos have earned her legions of fans on social media, bassist Jack Anderson and drummer Malcolm Craig – all grew up within walking distance of one another. They spent 10 days in Chicago last November recording the debut EP, with Twin Peaks‘ frontman Cadien Lake James serving as executive producer.
