Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have just released an electric and haunting music vid for their track “Magneto”, off their killer album The Skeleton Tree.
The clip is all set in a recording studio, but don’t expect the classic ‘humble artist having a jam sesh in a room adorned with funky carpets while wearing Beats by Dre headphones’ vibe. The scene begins looking in on the band from the sound booth, and shit promptly gets beautifully wild.
All the technical gear begins to subtly distort itself and become circular – kind of like a GoPro, but not gross – and then we’re with Nick doing his thing at the piano, as a camera circles him on a trolley and strobe lights ricochet off every possible surface.
It’s all very meta and incredibly stunning – serving as a moving testament to the heartbreak Cave has endured over the past 18 months. In July last year, his 15 year-old son, Arthur, died after accidentally falling off a cliff.
Recording sessions for The Skeleton Tree had already begun by this point, but Cave ultimately reworked a lot of the lyrics to accommodate more explicit allusions to grief, death and trauma.
“Magneto” paints a complex and devastating portrait of loss, in classic Nick Cave fashion: “For love, you laugh, I laugh, you love/Saw you in heart and the stars are splashed across the ceiling.”
Check out the beautiful clip below.
WARNING: This video contains strobing content that could affect people with epilepsy.
Source: YouTube.
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