Video: Fleet Foxes, ‘If You Need To, Keep Time On Me’

S.Lo on April 17th, 2018

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Seattle’s Fleet Foxes (Robin Pecknold, Skyler Skjelset, Casey Wescott, Christian Wargo and Morgan Henderson) have released a dreamy new video for their meditative song “If You Need To, Keep Time On Me” off their latest album, “Crack-Up,” released last year via Nonesuch Records. It arrives ahead of their performances at Coachella and a special 7-inch release on Record Store Day (April 21) of their album as performed with the Icelandic women’s choir Graduale Nobli at Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik (the B-side of which is an intimate version of “In the Morning” recorded live at the 2017 Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland).

The video arrives in a vertical format. Directed by London-based Vidanoise (David Hession) and animated by Hession and motion graphics designer Rosie Holtom, the “vertical video format … lent itself to the constantly evolving, impossible landscape, with each scene an expression of time passing and how time is measured through nature, as majestically delicate as the song itself.” It’s the perfect marriage of visual to song as Pecknold sings, “How could it all fall in one day? / Were we too sure of our sun? / If you need to / Keep time on me… If I need to / I’ll keep time on you,” as the frame lengthens through ethereal scenes of snow-enrobed mountains and moons disappearing into galaxies beyond.

||| Watch (via Spotify): The video for “If You Need To, Keep Time On Me” in full vertical format (drag down trackpad with two fingers)

||| Also: The video for “If You Need To, Keep Time On Me” in regular YouTube format