Blog: Stereogum

Birdmonster's new Tom Schick-produced album From The Mountain To the Sea is out early next month. We posted its " Born To Be Your Man " at the beginning of July and here we have the video for another Mountain track "The Iditarod." We're told the clip uses SLAM (aka Slide, Animation, Movies), a visual technique invented/coined by Greg Crane. The explanation: Not too different from your standard stop-motion animation, SLAM takes the aesthetics to a new arty level. 95% of the video was created using digital still photos from a professional/high-end camera. [...]