Kevin Bronson on January 4th, 2014

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Califone, the long-running Chicago-based purveyors of circuit-bent Americana, won substantial praise for their 2013 release “Stitches,” a collection like so many in the band’s catalog that steers clear of the clichés that burden the genre. The latest in a series of videos for songs on the album is “Movie Music Kills a Kiss,” featuring songwriter Tim Rutili and Angela Bettis, who directed. It’s a slo-mo gem. Rutili, a soundtrack composer who directed the 2009 film “All My Friends Are Funeral Singers” in conjunction with the Califone album of that name, explains: “Movie music can add or subtract emotional weight or fool you into thinking nothing is something and something is nothing. Movie music really can kill a kiss.”

||| Live: Califone plays Monday at the Bootleg Bar.

||| Also: Check out the video for “We Are a Payphone” after the jump:

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