If you are - like me - spellbound and wonderous at this animation - it was created by created by Robin Pecknold's (Fleet Foxes lead singer) brother Sean. What a talented family.
Maybe I didnt scroll far down enough in the comments but I'm surprised by the lack of people totally wrecked by the first 12 seconds. The deer-alope thing snuggling up to it's lifeless companion and then pushing them off the cliff. ouch my soul.
"Carry me to Innis Free like pollen on the breeze". Innis Free is the name of a magical realm with a beautiful lake that comes from Irish Folklore I believe. My Grandparents named the family trust the Innis Free Trust, and their old house gate says Innis Free in wrought Iron. My mind pretty much exploded when I heard that lyric just then.
Liam Francis Burgess Innisfree is a small island in the middle of a lake called Lough Gill in Ireland. It really does exist and it's beautiful. I love their music. I'm purely enchanted by it. They mention Innisfree in a couple of other songs as well.
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
and I will have some peace there for peace comes dropping slow dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings where midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow and evening full of linnet's wings.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey, I hear it in the deep heart’s core.
@Liam Francic Burgess I've caught the image and vibe of Innisfree in a lot of Irish songs. Like Fields of Athenrye. Just plain vibe. It's where my paradise is at. Bless you grandparents. If I have a house, I will make on top of a moutain and call the valley innisfree. Thanks for the write-up!
100% right! once i was such a person... til i discovered fine radio DJs such as John Peel & others who brought to light several treasures. FF is one of many examples that today's music still rocks. it still can be relevant, deep, touching & real at the same time. some tips: Godspeed You! Black Emperor; Boogarins; A Silver Mt. Zion; Radiohead; Amen Dunes; Limland;... Today's internet is in a certain way a blessing for you can discover endlessly less known musicians & groups. when i was a teenager there only was a biiiig catalog without any chance to listen to any track before buying that record.
They sound a lot like Grizzly Bear whitch are great too, their last album is their best i think. Also Chad Vangaalen is one of the best in that kind of indie-music right now. Of course some oldies still put out amazing albums - radiohead's album is just the best in their career, Alice in Chains and Mastodon released great fucking albums. It's just there was so many cool bands in 90s, but now there are still some :)
In my experience, people who say this kind of thing don't understand/don't want to keep up with art. They want more of what they listened to when growing up.
I agree with you generally, but it is still matter of taste. I don't think this is awesome. I think Wardruna is awesome, Haggard, Natacha Atlas or Asaf Avidan.
I went down among the dust and pollen To the old stone fountain in the morning after dawn Underneath were all these pennies fallen from the hands of children They were there and then were gone And I wonder what became of them What became of them Sunlight over me no matter what I do Apples in the summer are golden sweet Everyday a passing complete I'm not one to ever pray for mercy Or to wish on pennies in the fountain or the shrine But that day you know I left my money And I thought of you only All that copper glowing fine And I wonder what become of you What became of you Sunlight over me no matter what I do Apples in the summer are golden sweet Everyday a passing complete Apples in the summer are golden sweet Everyday a passing complete In the morning waking up to terrible sunlight All diffuse like skin abuse the sun is half its size When you talk you hardly even look in my eyes In the morning, in the morning In the doorway holding every letter that I wrote In the driveway pulling away putting on your coat In the ocean washing off my name from your throat In the morning, in the morning In the ocean washing off my name from your throat In the morning, in the morning Green apples hang from my tree They belong only to me Green apples hang from my green apple tree They belong only to, only to me And if I just stay awhile here staring at the sea And the waves break ever closer, ever near to me I will lay down in the sand and let the ocean leave Carry me to Innisfree like pollen on the breeze (Also, this is a masterpiece in EVERY sense of the word. I'm deeply moved by this.)
I've been listening to Crack-Up for the past week and this song really hits up when you take the imagery from this song and see where it leads to on Crack-Up. Here it's so slick, just a few lines, and he swears it won't haunt him, but dude, this just puts Crack-Up in a completely different light. I know Crack-Up is about more than just heartbreak, but I can't let go how important it is on that record. The entire album has a theme about an idealized wife he's supposed to find in the ocean, and by listening to The Shrine/An Argument, I can only believe this woman who washes her throat in the ocean, who makes him want to ride that same ocean to reach Innisfree, to be the woman that drove him into the ocean, to find this supposed ideal wife of his. He basically dehumanized her to be the ocean, because that's where she laid her love for him to rest, and if he didn't know better he'd die in that ocean trying to recapture it. Good thing he found another way to overcome his trauma than to just hunt it down to the bottom of the ocean.
This was a mildly disturbing collaboration. I have the album, so I already knew the song by heart but had never really imagined what a companion video would look like. I was a bit shocked, though this video certainly doesn't lack for artistic quality or effort. Very beautifully put together and very vivid in it's effects. My compliments to the artist who built this.
I was disturbed by it. Slightly. I mean I didn't know what to expect at the beginning and gradually weirder and more twisted things presented themselves. The rabbits for instance. The eye. The weird looking creature with a head that didn't quite go on the body. I mean just really wierd things. Oh and the end. That was the worst part. And the "string player" all along was... that. Creepy. And I would like to say the artistic skill and style is what made it so disturbing. Because it really puts you there.
I was 13 when I first saw the video. Swore to forget it but returned to it the very next day. And I still do, 8 years later... I've reached the conclusion I don't need to understand it. It means different things to me depending what mood I'm in. I
The story kind of reminds me of "the ringing bell" cherin the ram who defied nature's law of predator and prey he became the predator but was then rejected by the lambs of the pasture, the ones he protected and lives alone on the mountain that once belonged to the fearsome old wolf
This song transports you into an alternate state of consciousness like the one you enter before dying realizing the beauty of your life of everything of being here on earth. Like a bird eye view. You realize how profound it all is. How personal and perfect each moment was. It brings me to tears. Well done fleet foxes. May we meet on some other world in some other universe and converse. It seems whenever I veer off course this song beings me back right where I need to be.
The strain in Robin's voice when he says "no matter" 😩This is one of their best songs ever ok, gives me goosebumps listening and singing to it. Good god I'm so happy they're back together.
My dream came true last week, seeing them Live in Utrecht. This song was the peak. The crowd was standing silent, under their spell, trancelike. I had goosebumps and tears and joy and sadness all together. This is a rare piece of art of one of the greatest musicians ever lived 🦊
"sunlight over me NO MATTER WHAT I DO!!!!." that voice is powerful and chilling you expect it to break and it just ramps up the song. This is just brilliant I love the song and the video I have to stop and watch it everytime . Just like Aldous Harding 'The Barrel'. This video is so unexpected but I absolutely love it especially the crazy jazz Dragons 😍
So I've read pretty good interpretations of the original text of this song (about a relationship breaking up) but what is the meaning of this video? Best I can hazard is that you have the journey of this deer creature. The deer originally has a rider who is some sort of cat-person? We see the cat-person rider already dead at the beginning and the deer try to revive him and then casts him off the cliff. We see that there are other animal-people's impaled heads all over the place and since in a flashback when the deer is in the desert we see them fighting or being beheaded by the horned creatures with the elaborate clothing (who both play the instruments to the song and have a creepy fire ceremony during the middle part of the song). It seems to me like the cat-person rider and his fellows were on some sort of campaign to kill or defeat the horned creatures and it's failed, and in the aftermath we have the deer creature wandering through the wasteland. A persistent theme is a sort of Darwinian chaos of violence: the deer kills a creature to survive and then is hunted by various monstrous animals (wolves and a dragon) and, when it finally collapses into the ocean, brutally torn apart by a giant scavenging amphisbaena (double-headed serpent). It seems to me that the horned creatures are personifications or spirits of this chaos, seeing how they seem to thrive and celebrate in the midst of it, dancing and making music while the deer is hunted (and while the physical environment also chaotically whips around). I think ultimately we see the Darwinian chaos basically victorious: we know the animal-people's crusade to destroy the horned creatures was a failure (or as a war is it just one more violent, chaotic action?), and then we see that actually even the deer had one of the horned things in it all the time, and that the music we heard the whole time was the music of its own life-force, being played by one of the spirits of chaos, violence and life. This was hinted at by the fact that the deer participated in the struggle for survival when it killed another animal and roasted it. Although there's at the same time sort of a pathos or more serene side to the horned creatures and the message? Like something about life? Even the double-serpent at the end doesn't like, tear itself in two in unrestrained hunger, but has a mutual lick and goes on its way. There's also that paper triangle sun-eye thing opening during the deer's dying hallucination (from dragon poison?). Hm. That's how one person sees the story. Any clarity to any of this? What's the relationship between the text and visual meaning?
I agree with everything you say here, and I'd like to add my interpretation of what the horned thing coming out of the deer means. I think that in the context of the video, what we're seeing is almost a sort of "reincarnation" of the deer. In the end of his life he saw a lot of bloodshed and war and chaos, so his soul becomes tainted, and now in his next life he's become twisted in a way. The primary reason I think this is what's going on is that in the beginning of the video, the deer looks into the eye of one of the creatures whose heads are impaled. We then see the deer from inside the creature's head, and we see another animal looking out: a sort of rabbit. This parallels the fact that the horned thing resided in the deer before he was torn apart. I think both the horned thing and the rabbit are representations of the souls of the creatures. Further, when the horned thing rises towards the surface of the water after leaving the deer, he enters the fetal position, which I feel is a representation of birth and rebirth. But I think this is all a metaphor for how trauma changes us, and this is how the video ties in with the lyrics of the song. Many people, when faced with trauma, say that they feel as though they are no longer who they once were. I think that the horned thing coming out of the deer is supposed to represent this. The lyrics of the song are about how, after a traumatic split with a lover, the singer no longer feels whole. So, I guess, ultimately what I'm saying here is that both the video and the song are about how trauma destroys us and then builds us into something new. I think that's also why there's a sort of peace in the horned creature coming out of the deer; he's not truly dead, he's just new.
I felt like the two headed serpent was kinda the nature of demons who don't want to share. They rip the deer in two, and I thought that was it's baby in between the split (which I'm wrong lol) anyway. Some sins of the father inherited by the child shit. I'm not going to get too deep lol but that was my first thoughts.
@@stephenevans5963 it would make some sense as we see twice a close up to the deer thing's belly - I was trying to figure out what for, but showing its pregnant, might be a reason?
Not sure if you'll read this or can still relate to this because your comments are already over a year old but i think you missed a couple of things relating to the "crazed Troll" creature we first see at 1:20 in some sort of clearing or what might be the entrails of the Deer. The next appearance of the Troll during the flashback sequence is hard to miss- at 5:32 we see a shot of the Deer's dead rider from the start of the video and then for a couple frames we see a shot of the Troll seemingly choking the rider. The next couple of shots of the Troll and rider during the sequence are blurred and seem to sink away from our visual field.
this is one of my all time favorite songs. the lyrics are brilliant about issues coming to light or integrity, about making wishes as a child and wondering if others lived up to their goals and if you did. the video is not as important as the lyrics. I think it may be an artistic expression symbolizing the death of a relationship maybe.
i get goosebumps every time i hear this song. it makes me really relate because of how tumultuous it is. How discarded are the sacred things, lots among foul sounds and chaotic interactions...
In honesty, this is the first time I have happened to listen to them, but the music AND music video are just art! they are both beautiful in their own mediums. I wish more mainstream music was as thematic and not just formulaic.
This video is everything. It's my go-to if I want to show someone what I think is the best music video out there. The animation and style of it is so unique. Major props to the designers.
Lol.. yes. Sorry but it's true. There are musicians who are just as good. Radiohead for example takes on backseat to pink Floyd or the Beatles or any other artist from the past.they are just as brilliant if not more. People have this weird tendency to always put old stuff on pedestal.i don't subscribe to this ideology.
loved them for years, just now discovering their music videos. in awe of the raw feel to each of them, surrealism and poetry. this song has a whole new meaning after watching.
The sound and texture of the horns at the end is one of my favorite music moments. This is a breakup song through and through. And in breakups, sometimes the arguing between a couple becomes so routine and futile it may well be nothing but wordless noises.
So id like to hear peoples thoughts on the idea behind the video. Mines the creature accidentally killed his friend in an argument, and as he goes through he starts to feel the regret more and more, until it destroys him.
Even though Crack-up is a wonderful album, I can't help but go back to this song and this video for, what I believe, is the most haunting and astonishing Fleet Foxes experience to date. One of the most beautiful things I've ever heard and seen.
Unreal. There is so much to this song that most don't pick up right away without taking some time for a closer look. But once you do, the appreciation grows.
In an article the makker of this video was asked:Please describe what’s happening in this video. A relationship between an elk and his rider has reached its death, and so he is left to wander alone through a lonely and turbulent universe towards his fateful end. Oh, and an owl shoots eye-lasers into the elk at one point.
I came home from band camp to have my stepdad having this on TH-cam (not the video it was a music festival, a German one I think it began with a D and looked like a German word) and it was at the slow ballad part (just before the dragons) and I looooved the vocals and they're harmonizations. They're so talented. But... Then came the bass clarinet screaming and I was like... Whoah. Although the video is a bit odd for me personally, I love the music. It's soooo good. The way they were able to use the instruments in a way that all made sense is pretty phenomenal
I'm 49 years old . I lived through the British explosion all the way up through Grunge . It seems like once Grunge died, then music died . My daughter knows I like SubPop and sent me Mykonos, and now I'm hooked !! This is the most beautiful sound, and the animation is hypnotic .
Im within a couple of years of you. Music didn't die back then, it just went back underground, and then resurfaced slightly more mainstream again in the mid to late aughts. Its harder to find the good stuff now because there is just so much to sift through. I frequented music stores and heard music like this when it came out; there have been a _lot_ of great bands in the last 25 years.🙂
The Shrine / An Argument Fleet Foxes I went down among the dust and pollen To the old stone fountain in the morning after dawn Underneath were all these pennies fallen from the hands of children They were there and then were gone And I wonder what became of them What became of them Sunlight over me no matter what I do Apples in the summer are golden sweet Everyday a passing complete I'm not one to ever pray for mercy Or to wish on pennies in the fountain or the shrine But that day you know I left my money And I thought of you only All that copper glowing fine And I wonder what become of you What became of you Sunlight over me no matter what I do Apples in the summer are golden sweet Everyday a passing complete Apples in the summer are golden sweet Everyday a passing complete In the morning waking up to terrible sunlight All diffuse like skin abuse the sun is half its size When you talk you hardly even look in my eyes In the morning, in the morning In the doorway holding every letter that I wrote In the driveway pulling away putting on your coat In the ocean washing off my name from your throat In the morning, in the morning In the ocean washing off my name from your throat In the morning, in the morning Green apples hang from my tree They belong only to me Green apples hang from my green apple tree They belong only to, only to me And if I just stay awhile here staring at the sea And the waves break ever closer, ever near to me I will lay down in the sand and let the ocean leave Carry me to Innisfree like pollen on the breeze
the song on its own is beautiful, but played with the animation, it all comes together astonishingly and I have to say this is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen AND heard!
I believe the saxophone solo at the end is symbolizing the "argument" that takes place; it's messy, unexpected, and unsettling; exactly what the end of a long term relationship may look like. Although the sounds are very unappealing, from an artistic standpoint it's creative, and a way to truly capture the situation that this song is recreating.
i remember watching this when i was younger and having the dragon part burned into my memory but never being able to find the video again... i saw it in my recommended today and kept waiting for it, it took so long that i thought i might have just made it up and worrying what that meant for my sanity lmao
This is awesome! A hint of Neal Young in his voice, but his voice is his own. I love music that takes you on a journey. Fleet Foxes, we've been waiting for you.
Besides Blue Ridge Mountains, this is my favorite Fleet Foxes song. It elicits such a feeling of being somewhere and knowing something important happened, but having no idea what it was
Amazing man it's like a modern day moody blues. Also kudos to whoever did the animation for the video it's so good. Cmon fleet foxes record more music. I recently got into you guys like a month ago thanks to the underachievers and love your guys music. It's so artistic
Golden Aura I agree with you totally man. These chums are way to hard to give up on us. There's just not a lot of tempos out here doin what these peeps do and we hugs it!!
Golden Aura The lead singer (Robin Pecknold) decided to go back to college (in NYC while the rest of the band is in Washington) so I wouldn't expect new material from them anytime soon sadly enough.
I couldn't name another song by these folks at this point, but for about three years, this song has been one of my favourites. Sad to see that almost 900 people don't feel it. To each their own, I suppose.
Saw them last year in Philadelphia and this song was so epic live. You have to see them in concert just to hear this song, it'll change your life. And they performed "Helplessness Blues" as their last song which was equally amazing. It was a great concert and definitely worth the 3 hours it took to drive there (damn you I-95!).
Saw them two nights ago, and this song is still epic live! It was the last show of the tour, or I would have been making travel plans to another venue. I cannot get enough. They are in a lane of their own creatively. Robin Pecknold is a gift.
I honestly get a wave of emotions from this entire video and song, i wanna say the feeling is uncanny but it’s also beautiful, i never thought something dark and eerie could be shifted into something else entirely
Part of me can’t help but wish they’d kept the tone from the 0:15 - 2:32 throughout the song. Their low key string and vocals in the beginning is so ethereal and profound.
Just listening to their music is like falling headlong into a portal to another world; a strange wild world where everything is rapturously alive, where the spirits of mountains and rivers and animal gods walk alongside wise wanderers through the shadows of ancient forests and the fog of woodsmoke, and the deeper forces of love and death and the seasons are still the clocks we tune our lives to. Or... it's like really good weed.
So when I took drawing 1 at community college the class was on fridays and five hours. While we worked on still lives our teacher would play his cds on his portable stereo. He only had a couple cds, and most of them were fleetfoxes. By the end of the semester we were all thoroughly conditioned to drop all of our drawing supplies and bolt to the stereo the second this song switched to the argument portion so we could skip to the next song. At the time I was impartial to his song selection but now the fleet foxes are solidly one of my favorite groups. I love this one and always smile at the end thinking of us bolting to the stereo to save our eardrums 😂
The video (the art) mixed with the song (the art) make me imagine old Native American myths (primarily the Hopi) and modern-day indie culture, perhaps in the middle of a forest or some fantastical new kingdom. Oh, this is my favourite song by them by a long run.
i started to listening to fleet foxes & misty 2013-14 to this day they are my feel good artists , usually i listen to black metal or such but this nostalgia will forever be with ne
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If you are - like me - spellbound and wonderous at this animation - it was created by created by Robin Pecknold's (Fleet Foxes lead singer) brother Sean. What a talented family.
+gmatochautube I'm not sure just what happened to me. I am shattered.
Stacey Rozich was the artist
I’m so amazed by the whole video, music + animation, one of my favorite of all times.
ya might wanna reread that sentence real quick bud
Hobby Fanatic not spellbound just scared
"Sunlight over me no matter what i do." What a powerful voice. I knew i loved his voice but this line...
desperation inside. when you separate from a person. everyone of us seem to know this...
I got goosebumps just reading it...
@@yellowclouds3722 nope, still figuring it out
sameeee ♡♡♡♡
it really is something else
Maybe I didnt scroll far down enough in the comments but I'm surprised by the lack of people totally wrecked by the first 12 seconds. The deer-alope thing snuggling up to it's lifeless companion and then pushing them off the cliff. ouch my soul.
Wow, you are the most emotional person ever.
@@WolfShadowwhisper Something tells me One Direction fans aren't watching this. Just a feeling.
@@Aiden-V2.0 I am sure they are not. But just in case, that is covered.
I think it was kind of ruined by watching the same deer-alope thing hunting down a rabbit and ripping it's head off.
Currently fighting back tears as we speak! It's a beautiful song.
"Carry me to Innis Free like pollen on the breeze". Innis Free is the name of a magical realm with a beautiful lake that comes from Irish Folklore I believe. My Grandparents named the family trust the Innis Free Trust, and their old house gate says Innis Free in wrought Iron. My mind pretty much exploded when I heard that lyric just then.
Liam Francis Burgess Innisfree is a small island in the middle of a lake called Lough Gill in Ireland. It really does exist and it's beautiful. I love their music. I'm purely enchanted by it. They mention Innisfree in a couple of other songs as well.
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
and I will have some peace there for peace comes dropping slow
dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings
where midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow
and evening full of linnet's wings.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.
@Liam Francic Burgess I've caught the image and vibe of Innisfree in a lot of Irish songs. Like Fields of Athenrye. Just plain vibe. It's where my paradise is at. Bless you grandparents.
If I have a house, I will make on top of a moutain and call the valley innisfree.
Thanks for the write-up!
Some people keep saying today`s music sucks, that there is nothing good anymore... They`re looking in the wrong places, this is awesome!!!
100% right! once i was such a person... til i discovered fine radio DJs such as John Peel & others who brought to light several treasures. FF is one of many examples that today's music still rocks. it still can be relevant, deep, touching & real at the same time. some tips: Godspeed You! Black Emperor; Boogarins; A Silver Mt. Zion; Radiohead; Amen Dunes; Limland;... Today's internet is in a certain way a blessing for you can discover endlessly less known musicians & groups. when i was a teenager there only was a biiiig catalog without any chance to listen to any track before buying that record.
They sound a lot like Grizzly Bear whitch are great too, their last album is their best i think.
Also Chad Vangaalen is one of the best in that kind of indie-music right now.
Of course some oldies still put out amazing albums - radiohead's album is just the best in their career, Alice in Chains and Mastodon released great fucking albums. It's just there was so many cool bands in 90s, but now there are still some :)
@@myarchive667 a moon shaped pool is not their best album ever.
In my experience, people who say this kind of thing don't understand/don't want to keep up with art. They want more of what they listened to when growing up.
I agree with you generally, but it is still matter of taste. I don't think this is awesome. I think Wardruna is awesome, Haggard, Natacha Atlas or Asaf Avidan.
I went down among the dust and pollen
To the old stone fountain in the morning after dawn
Underneath were all these pennies fallen from the hands of children
They were there and then were gone
And I wonder what became of them
What became of them
Sunlight over me no matter what I do
Apples in the summer are golden sweet
Everyday a passing complete
I'm not one to ever pray for mercy
Or to wish on pennies in the fountain or the shrine
But that day you know I left my money
And I thought of you only
All that copper glowing fine
And I wonder what become of you
What became of you
Sunlight over me no matter what I do
Apples in the summer are golden sweet
Everyday a passing complete
Apples in the summer are golden sweet
Everyday a passing complete
In the morning waking up to terrible sunlight
All diffuse like skin abuse the sun is half its size
When you talk you hardly even look in my eyes
In the morning, in the morning
In the doorway holding every letter that I wrote
In the driveway pulling away putting on your coat
In the ocean washing off my name from your throat
In the morning, in the morning
In the ocean washing off my name from your throat
In the morning, in the morning
Green apples hang from my tree
They belong only to me
Green apples hang from my green apple tree
They belong only to, only to me
And if I just stay awhile here staring at the sea
And the waves break ever closer, ever near to me
I will lay down in the sand and let the ocean leave
Carry me to Innisfree like pollen on the breeze
(Also, this is a masterpiece in EVERY sense of the word. I'm deeply moved by this.)
thank you for the lyric
SPOILERS
These guys are a timeless treasure.
Its music you should hear before you die.
Thank you!
what does 'everyday a passing complete' mean? Sorry English is not my first language and I'm finding very hard to translate this correctly.
I get shivers down my spine with "In the ocean washing off my name from your throat". Every time.
I've been listening to Crack-Up for the past week and this song really hits up when you take the imagery from this song and see where it leads to on Crack-Up. Here it's so slick, just a few lines, and he swears it won't haunt him, but dude, this just puts Crack-Up in a completely different light.
I know Crack-Up is about more than just heartbreak, but I can't let go how important it is on that record. The entire album has a theme about an idealized wife he's supposed to find in the ocean, and by listening to The Shrine/An Argument, I can only believe this woman who washes her throat in the ocean, who makes him want to ride that same ocean to reach Innisfree, to be the woman that drove him into the ocean, to find this supposed ideal wife of his. He basically dehumanized her to be the ocean, because that's where she laid her love for him to rest, and if he didn't know better he'd die in that ocean trying to recapture it. Good thing he found another way to overcome his trauma than to just hunt it down to the bottom of the ocean.
@@DarkAngelEU Brilliant take.
@@AmazingTNT Thanks for finding merit in my perspective :)
Pecknold is a great poet and writer. Very underrated.
There is something beautiful about a two headed dragon fighting over food that will go to both of their stomachs
Taste
maybe to relive a internal hunger for desire.
Actually most two headed animals don't share a stomach, due to basically being two animals combined in the middle-
They both got a chunk so it went to both their stomachs.
Tis not the satiation they seek; tis the taste.
the harmonies are ethereal, the lyrics are poetry, and those vocal turns absolutely kill me
+Hannah H I feel you :)
Oh my God, I swear this is one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard.
and seen
Agnieszka Czupryniak true
yesssss!
Ya. Every second is a discovery. Fucking beautiful.
Ya'll are degenerates.
This was a mildly disturbing collaboration. I have the album, so I already knew the song by heart but had never really imagined what a companion video would look like. I was a bit shocked, though this video certainly doesn't lack for artistic quality or effort. Very beautifully put together and very vivid in it's effects. My compliments to the artist who built this.
And, my salute!
Robins little brother made the vid. Robin is the lead singer.
I was disturbed by it. Slightly. I mean I didn't know what to expect at the beginning and gradually weirder and more twisted things presented themselves. The rabbits for instance. The eye. The weird looking creature with a head that didn't quite go on the body. I mean just really wierd things. Oh and the end. That was the worst part. And the "string player" all along was... that. Creepy. And I would like to say the artistic skill and style is what made it so disturbing. Because it really puts you there.
I was 13 when I first saw the video. Swore to forget it but returned to it the very next day. And I still do, 8 years later... I've reached the conclusion I don't need to understand it. It means different things to me depending what mood I'm in. I
Stacy Rozich
That “No matter what I do” has to be the best singing i’ve heard from Robin. Greatness
Why am I just discovering Fleet Foxes now! YEARS WASTED!
theres no such thing as wasted with discovering things, whats important is that youve discovered them
The story kind of reminds me of "the ringing bell" cherin the ram who defied nature's law of predator and prey
he became the predator but was then rejected by the lambs of the pasture, the ones he protected and lives alone on the mountain that once belonged to the fearsome old wolf
bro how does this comment have so little likes
omg cherin!!!!!!!!!!!! that badass
Chirin goes right in the feels man
This song transports you into an alternate state of consciousness like the one you enter before dying realizing the beauty of your life of everything of being here on earth. Like a bird eye view. You realize how profound it all is. How personal and perfect each moment was. It brings me to tears. Well done fleet foxes. May we meet on some other world in some other universe and converse. It seems whenever I veer off course this song beings me back right where I need to be.
I know plenty of songs have time signature changes but 2:37 is so special. The whole mood changes with one beat and it's my favorite part.
And the timing signature for that section is also cool > three bars of 3 beats and 1 bar of 4 beats.
1, 2, 3; 1, 2, 3; 1, 2, 3; 1, 2, 3, 4
Yes yes yes! I couldn't agree more
@@noone3216 yes, and it's so special to see someone else acknowledge that!!
Man, when Robin says "When you talk, you hardly even look in my eyes"... Chills dude
Man, when Robin says "When you talk, you hardly even look in my eyes"... Chills dude
I felt that sh*t, perfectly delivered.
The strain in Robin's voice when he says "no matter" 😩This is one of their best songs ever ok, gives me goosebumps listening and singing to it. Good god I'm so happy they're back together.
My dream came true last week, seeing them
Live in Utrecht. This song was the peak. The crowd was standing silent, under their spell, trancelike. I had goosebumps and tears and joy and sadness all together. This is a rare piece of art of one of the greatest musicians ever lived 🦊
"sunlight over me NO MATTER WHAT I DO!!!!." that voice is powerful and chilling you expect it to break and it just ramps up the song. This is just brilliant I love the song and the video I have to stop and watch it everytime . Just like Aldous Harding 'The Barrel'. This video is so unexpected but I absolutely love it especially the crazy jazz Dragons 😍
And he nails those lyrics with the same perfect pitch and intensity when they play it live. Magnificent voice he's got
I've never been so unprepared for anything in my life.
Well.
I didn't expect that. This was excellent.
Posted halfway through video.This isn't excellent, it's remarkable.
SlamifiedBuddafied I third that, considering..haha, hugs these peeps!
So I've read pretty good interpretations of the original text of this song (about a relationship breaking up) but what is the meaning of this video? Best I can hazard is that you have the journey of this deer creature. The deer originally has a rider who is some sort of cat-person? We see the cat-person rider already dead at the beginning and the deer try to revive him and then casts him off the cliff. We see that there are other animal-people's impaled heads all over the place and since in a flashback when the deer is in the desert we see them fighting or being beheaded by the horned creatures with the elaborate clothing (who both play the instruments to the song and have a creepy fire ceremony during the middle part of the song). It seems to me like the cat-person rider and his fellows were on some sort of campaign to kill or defeat the horned creatures and it's failed, and in the aftermath we have the deer creature wandering through the wasteland.
A persistent theme is a sort of Darwinian chaos of violence: the deer kills a creature to survive and then is hunted by various monstrous animals (wolves and a dragon) and, when it finally collapses into the ocean, brutally torn apart by a giant scavenging amphisbaena (double-headed serpent). It seems to me that the horned creatures are personifications or spirits of this chaos, seeing how they seem to thrive and celebrate in the midst of it, dancing and making music while the deer is hunted (and while the physical environment also chaotically whips around).
I think ultimately we see the Darwinian chaos basically victorious: we know the animal-people's crusade to destroy the horned creatures was a failure (or as a war is it just one more violent, chaotic action?), and then we see that actually even the deer had one of the horned things in it all the time, and that the music we heard the whole time was the music of its own life-force, being played by one of the spirits of chaos, violence and life. This was hinted at by the fact that the deer participated in the struggle for survival when it killed another animal and roasted it. Although there's at the same time sort of a pathos or more serene side to the horned creatures and the message? Like something about life? Even the double-serpent at the end doesn't like, tear itself in two in unrestrained hunger, but has a mutual lick and goes on its way. There's also that paper triangle sun-eye thing opening during the deer's dying hallucination (from dragon poison?). Hm. That's how one person sees the story. Any clarity to any of this? What's the relationship between the text and visual meaning?
I agree with everything you say here, and I'd like to add my interpretation of what the horned thing coming out of the deer means. I think that in the context of the video, what we're seeing is almost a sort of "reincarnation" of the deer. In the end of his life he saw a lot of bloodshed and war and chaos, so his soul becomes tainted, and now in his next life he's become twisted in a way. The primary reason I think this is what's going on is that in the beginning of the video, the deer looks into the eye of one of the creatures whose heads are impaled. We then see the deer from inside the creature's head, and we see another animal looking out: a sort of rabbit. This parallels the fact that the horned thing resided in the deer before he was torn apart. I think both the horned thing and the rabbit are representations of the souls of the creatures. Further, when the horned thing rises towards the surface of the water after leaving the deer, he enters the fetal position, which I feel is a representation of birth and rebirth.
But I think this is all a metaphor for how trauma changes us, and this is how the video ties in with the lyrics of the song. Many people, when faced with trauma, say that they feel as though they are no longer who they once were. I think that the horned thing coming out of the deer is supposed to represent this. The lyrics of the song are about how, after a traumatic split with a lover, the singer no longer feels whole. So, I guess, ultimately what I'm saying here is that both the video and the song are about how trauma destroys us and then builds us into something new. I think that's also why there's a sort of peace in the horned creature coming out of the deer; he's not truly dead, he's just new.
I felt like the two headed serpent was kinda the nature of demons who don't want to share. They rip the deer in two, and I thought that was it's baby in between the split (which I'm wrong lol) anyway. Some sins of the father inherited by the child shit. I'm not going to get too deep lol but that was my first thoughts.
Hey look, pretty colours!
@@stephenevans5963 it would make some sense as we see twice a close up to the deer thing's belly - I was trying to figure out what for, but showing its pregnant, might be a reason?
Not sure if you'll read this or can still relate to this because your comments are already over a year old but i think you missed a couple of things relating to the "crazed Troll" creature we first see at 1:20 in some sort of clearing or what might be the entrails of the Deer.
The next appearance of the Troll during the flashback sequence is hard to miss- at 5:32 we see a shot of the Deer's dead rider from the start of the video and then for a couple frames we see a shot of the Troll seemingly choking the rider. The next couple of shots of the Troll and rider during the sequence are blurred and seem to sink away from our visual field.
i was cooking and listening to this. i wasn't prepared for the dragon part.
+Heather Modoki it's called free jazz i think pretty crazy, it's like blue cheese only a specific group like it.
Same thing just happened to me haha
+Jaden Miller Well put
Heather Modoki No doubt! That escalated very quickly.
this is one of my all time favorite songs. the lyrics are brilliant about issues coming to light or integrity, about making wishes as a child and wondering if others lived up to their goals and if you did. the video is not as important as the lyrics. I think it may be an artistic expression symbolizing the death of a relationship maybe.
i get goosebumps every time i hear this song. it makes me really relate because of how tumultuous it is. How discarded are the sacred things, lots among foul sounds and chaotic interactions...
Among foul sounds..
This is some of the most beautiful animation I have ever seen.
in my opinion the song is completely secondary to this animation. more like a standard soundtrack for an awesome illustrated animation.
This band always gives me chills, with EVERY. DAMN. SONG. I mean, they're just soo good!
In honesty, this is the first time I have happened to listen to them, but the music AND music video are just art! they are both beautiful in their own mediums. I wish more mainstream music was as thematic and not just formulaic.
This video is everything. It's my go-to if I want to show someone what I think is the best music video out there. The animation and style of it is so unique. Major props to the designers.
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3:40 ... just realized he kicked both of the wolves' heads CLEAN OFF their necks... Jesus. You go, deer guy.
All the jazz during the sea monsters fight for flesh was amazing!
Still the craziest coolest most terrifying interesting video of all time.
If Fleet Foxes existed in the 70s they would be classed as one of the all time greats. Same goes for Tame Impala
clwireg so fuckin true.. arcade fire as well or strokes maybe .
shut the fuck up kids
No? Lol.
Lol.. yes. Sorry but it's true. There are musicians who are just as good. Radiohead for example takes on backseat to pink Floyd or the Beatles or any other artist from the past.they are just as brilliant if not more. People have this weird tendency to always put old stuff on pedestal.i don't subscribe to this ideology.
the reason is that the old bands paved the way. these bands today take great influence and so to some they are not as special
Indie folk is the best genre of music I think. Artists and bands create breath taking music that hits the soul.
We truly are Heaven blessed to have this band in our lives
To whom it may concern: thank you. This video understood me at my most primal part. I appreciate the visual commentary. Have a good life.
Bless you Artists!
Love
got baked and watched this, now I can't sleep. touche fleet foxes, touche. I dig it.
Same. I'm shook
loved them for years, just now discovering their music videos. in awe of the raw feel to each of them, surrealism and poetry. this song has a whole new meaning after watching.
They're about to get back together too! So pumped for this!!!
The sound and texture of the horns at the end is one of my favorite music moments. This is a breakup song through and through. And in breakups, sometimes the arguing between a couple becomes so routine and futile it may well be nothing but wordless noises.
Their first album was my daughter's birthing music, 8 years later we saw them live together in Maine
"Sunlight over me no matter what I do."
+Ash Jarnicki my fav part of the song
Gives me goosebumps that raspiness
So id like to hear peoples thoughts on the idea behind the video. Mines the creature accidentally killed his friend in an argument, and as he goes through he starts to feel the regret more and more, until it destroys him.
Two-headed creature is probably Sisiutl.
th-cam.com/video/Lc-_gzZ41qs/w-d-xo.html
This is by far the best thing I've heard in a while.
+Arualasalv True to that... i just keep returning to Fleet Foxes over and over.
I feel anxious when I listen to the dragon part and watching the video at the same time..
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yes, i feel the same
Camilla Birkholm Which part is the dragon part?
From around 06:30 and onwards :-)
Camilla Birkholm thanks
Incredible song. The start of the chorus gives me shivers! There's just something about this song that gets me every time..
Even though Crack-up is a wonderful album, I can't help but go back to this song and this video for, what I believe, is the most haunting and astonishing Fleet Foxes experience to date. One of the most beautiful things I've ever heard and seen.
Unreal. There is so much to this song that most don't pick up right away without taking some time for a closer look. But once you do, the appreciation grows.
In an article the makker of this video was asked:Please describe what’s happening in this video.
A relationship between an elk and his rider has reached its death, and so he is left to wander alone through a lonely and turbulent universe towards his fateful end. Oh, and an owl shoots eye-lasers into the elk at one point.
Astonishing visuals and excellent music. They used really a lot of instruments and they used them well.
I came home from band camp to have my stepdad having this on TH-cam (not the video it was a music festival, a German one I think it began with a D and looked like a German word) and it was at the slow ballad part (just before the dragons) and I looooved the vocals and they're harmonizations. They're so talented. But... Then came the bass clarinet screaming and I was like... Whoah. Although the video is a bit odd for me personally, I love the music. It's soooo good. The way they were able to use the instruments in a way that all made sense is pretty phenomenal
Mother of God, this is three songs in one!
Mother of Cheesus sike cheesus made himself
The deer never lived, sycophant it is,
Merely a marionette to a sinister puppeteer...
Plucking the chords of life..
did you write that up?
Daphne Széles Here’s to hoping a 7 year old comment responds lol
@@daphneszeles28 Sounds pretentious enough to have been an original statement.
dud3e. You need to write.
What do you have against deer?!
I'm 49 years old . I lived through the British explosion all the way up through Grunge . It seems like once Grunge died, then music died . My daughter knows I like SubPop and sent me Mykonos, and now I'm hooked !! This is the most beautiful sound, and the animation is hypnotic .
Im within a couple of years of you. Music didn't die back then, it just went back underground, and then resurfaced slightly more mainstream again in the mid to late aughts.
Its harder to find the good stuff now because there is just so much to sift through. I frequented music stores and heard music like this when it came out; there have been a _lot_ of great bands in the last 25 years.🙂
6:30 Chills. The visuals are a perfect accompaniment.
How often can you sit and listen all the way through an eight minute song. Fleet foxes will always cheer me up!
me: whats up with this "dragon part" everyone in the comments is talking abt. i bet its not that weird
the dragon part: comes on
me: oh
Wish there was a version without it. The change in flow was very abrupt
The dragon part is good and evil fighting for the creatures soul.
I put off my earphones to check what the heck is going on in my house. Then realized that this the part of track...
makin the assumption thats the abvant garde jazz stuffs,gotta love some avant garde
Me: “YO WTF?!”
I'd like to get rich enough to have fleet foxes play a dirge at my funeral.
IF they're still alive as well lol
The Shrine / An Argument
Fleet Foxes
I went down among the dust and pollen
To the old stone fountain in the morning after dawn
Underneath were all these pennies fallen from the hands of children
They were there and then were gone
And I wonder what became of them
What became of them
Sunlight over me no matter what I do
Apples in the summer are golden sweet
Everyday a passing complete
I'm not one to ever pray for mercy
Or to wish on pennies in the fountain or the shrine
But that day you know I left my money
And I thought of you only
All that copper glowing fine
And I wonder what become of you
What became of you
Sunlight over me no matter what I do
Apples in the summer are golden sweet
Everyday a passing complete
Apples in the summer are golden sweet
Everyday a passing complete
In the morning waking up to terrible sunlight
All diffuse like skin abuse the sun is half its size
When you talk you hardly even look in my eyes
In the morning, in the morning
In the doorway holding every letter that I wrote
In the driveway pulling away putting on your coat
In the ocean washing off my name from your throat
In the morning, in the morning
In the ocean washing off my name from your throat
In the morning, in the morning
Green apples hang from my tree
They belong only to me
Green apples hang from my green apple tree
They belong only to, only to me
And if I just stay awhile here staring at the sea
And the waves break ever closer, ever near to me
I will lay down in the sand and let the ocean leave
Carry me to Innisfree like pollen on the breeze
I was wonderin where the lyrics person is...
the song on its own is beautiful, but played with the animation, it all comes together astonishingly and I have to say this is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen AND heard!
I believe the saxophone solo at the end is symbolizing the "argument" that takes place; it's messy, unexpected, and unsettling; exactly what the end of a long term relationship may look like. Although the sounds are very unappealing, from an artistic standpoint it's creative, and a way to truly capture the situation that this song is recreating.
These days they are using a 4 piece horn combo for this. Two trombones can sound crazy chaotic!
i remember watching this when i was younger and having the dragon part burned into my memory but never being able to find the video again... i saw it in my recommended today and kept waiting for it, it took so long that i thought i might have just made it up and worrying what that meant for my sanity lmao
This is awesome! A hint of Neal Young in his voice, but his voice is his own. I love music that takes you on a journey. Fleet Foxes, we've been waiting for you.
This just takes you to a completely different world. Art in every way.
Besides Blue Ridge Mountains, this is my favorite Fleet Foxes song. It elicits such a feeling of being somewhere and knowing something important happened, but having no idea what it was
I would like to personally thank the TH-cam algorithm for finally giving something good
The TH-cam algorithm has been absolute 🔥 over this pandemic.
This is insanely gorgeous
No matter how many times I listen to it, or how many years pass, this song breaks me everytime.
❤
My friend threw this on for me while I was tripping... blew me away, what a fucking trip. Beautiful piece of art.
This was a bloody rollercoaster.
Well that was an easy addition to my favorites.
Hey i remember you from Earthbound! Lol
My favourite song of all time.
I'm so in love with this Band, it brings together so much of I love about music. Thank you for all the effort. 🙏👏
Well...this song, and video, made me cry. I love this band.
Amazing man it's like a modern day moody blues. Also kudos to whoever did the animation for the video it's so good. Cmon fleet foxes record more music. I recently got into you guys like a month ago thanks to the underachievers and love your guys music. It's so artistic
Golden Aura I agree with you totally man. These chums are way to hard to give up on us. There's just not a lot of tempos out here doin what these peeps do and we hugs it!!
Golden Aura Stacey Rozich is the artist
Golden Aura The lead singer (Robin Pecknold) decided to go back to college (in NYC while the rest of the band is in Washington) so I wouldn't expect new material from them anytime soon sadly enough.
DuffmanBE :(. A band like Fleet Foxes should have more sucess. It's music, real music... So sad to know what you said. :/
The illustrations for the animation are by Stacey Rozich, she did the cover art for Father John Misty's latest album too, her work's incredible
"when you talk you hardly even look in my eyes" gave me goosebumps
I clicked on this because of the thumbnail and DAMN IT DELIVERED
I couldn't name another song by these folks at this point, but for about three years, this song has been one of my favourites.
Sad to see that almost 900 people don't feel it. To each their own, I suppose.
4:26 from this part to the end, it makes me very emotional and make me cry, the lyrics and the music are too powerful
I can’t express the feeling I get whenever I watch a Fleet Foxes music video. Always an incredible experience
Saw them last year in Philadelphia and this song was so epic live. You have to see them in concert just to hear this song, it'll change your life. And they performed "Helplessness Blues" as their last song which was equally amazing. It was a great concert and definitely worth the 3 hours it took to drive there (damn you I-95!).
Saw them two nights ago, and this song is still epic live! It was the last show of the tour, or I would have been making travel plans to another venue. I cannot get enough. They are in a lane of their own creatively.
Robin Pecknold is a gift.
This is the most beautiful music video I've ever seen, anyone else getting Chirin no Suzu/Ringing Bell vibes?
The dragon part is actually kinda my favorite part
a calming chaos
crazy
Yes.
Check out my boy some nice folk type stuff
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Really? it kinda freaks me out and makes me have a mini panic attack and I have no idea why.
I honestly get a wave of emotions from this entire video and song, i wanna say the feeling is uncanny but it’s also beautiful, i never thought something dark and eerie could be shifted into something else entirely
this is not music, this is experience, feeling.
this is not music, this is experience, feeling.
feeling, experience is this, music not is this.
This is music that gives you an experience and feeling :P
this is a good one for sure. fleet foxes music just makes me feel good inside, even the darker tunes
Part of me can’t help but wish they’d kept the tone from the 0:15 - 2:32 throughout the song. Their low key string and vocals in the beginning is so ethereal and profound.
I've been mulling this over for three days now. I'm still in awe.
Wow!! This song is so epic. I love the story and the way it pulls you in. Makes me tear up every single time!!
I've loved this band since high school (I graduated in 2012 lol) and I never heard this song until now - game changer - much needed
Sheer brilliance in every respect.
The music and video alone are both incredible beyond words, but the fact that they go so well together somehow makes it even better.
Just listening to their music is like falling headlong into a portal to another world; a strange wild world where everything is rapturously alive, where the spirits of mountains and rivers and animal gods walk alongside wise wanderers through the shadows of ancient forests and the fog of woodsmoke, and the deeper forces of love and death and the seasons are still the clocks we tune our lives to. Or... it's like really good weed.
Watched this on K back in university and became part of the animation haha. 'Twas a beautiful experience
So when I took drawing 1 at community college the class was on fridays and five hours. While we worked on still lives our teacher would play his cds on his portable stereo. He only had a couple cds, and most of them were fleetfoxes. By the end of the semester we were all thoroughly conditioned to drop all of our drawing supplies and bolt to the stereo the second this song switched to the argument portion so we could skip to the next song. At the time I was impartial to his song selection but now the fleet foxes are solidly one of my favorite groups. I love this one and always smile at the end thinking of us bolting to the stereo to save our eardrums 😂
This song seriously made my heart beat slower...this band makes my body experience the feeling of true music and art.
This song gives me chills...
it is really fantastic to have bands like Fleet Foxes to restore some faith in todays music.
damn this is amazing. like a modern day moody blues
One of the best songs ever written... In my opinion x
The video (the art) mixed with the song (the art) make me imagine old Native American myths (primarily the Hopi) and modern-day indie culture, perhaps in the middle of a forest or some fantastical new kingdom. Oh, this is my favourite song by them by a long run.
i started to listening to fleet foxes & misty 2013-14 to this day they are my feel good artists , usually i listen to black metal or such but this nostalgia will forever be with ne