Picture this: you’re in a band. You’ve got a single coming out and you need to create a music video. You can make whatever your wild imagination and a moderate budget can stretch to! Will you choose girls? Debauchery? Farm animals?
Turns out, if you’re alt-pop four-piece Everything Everything, burnt skin and quarries are top of the shopping list. For the group’s latest single, Spring/Sun/Winter/Dread, frontman Jonathan Higgs imagined astronauts and some UV-related anguish:
“The song talks about seasons passing and getting older, so we wanted to concentrate on the sun and make it into a kind of oppressive force – positive and life-giving but also burning and destructive,” says Higgs. “We used ultraviolet and infrared cameras to get a look at the sun damage on our skin, and give everything an alien look. We shot in a quarry so we could have a clear horizon and a dry, hot, desert scene.”
Below is the finished product. Let us know what you make of it!
- This article was amended on 3 August to correct the title of Spring/Sun/Winter/Dread
