Seraphina Lotkhamnga on January 31st, 2012

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Despite the abundance of color in comparison to the clip for her lead single, “How Come You Never Go There,” the beautifully cinematic music video for Feist‘s new single “The Bad In Each Other” evokes much more sorrow. If nothing else, the opening scene where a man takes his dog out of the car to bury it out in the dessert sure sets a tone. However, no matter how much sympathy one has for the little girl and her recorder or the young woman who quickly realizes the emptiness of one-night stand, the Martin de Thurah-directed video does indeed capture “glimpses of something human,” as Feist says on her website. Shot in Mexico, the collage of strangers are in the same community without knowing it, and the melody, which goes from a dark gallop to a sweetly swelling string arrangement underneath a baritone sax solo, deepens the pathos. Thurah was also the director of James Blake’s video for his cover of Feist’s “Limit To Your Love.” “Metals” is out now on Polydor.

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