Pitchfork Forkcast: Video: Hella: "The Ungrateful Dead"

Video: Hella: "The Ungrateful Dead"

This song, an intricate stop/start number with prog leanings, introduced people to Hella's new vocal-oriented sound on There's No 666 in Outer Space about a year ago. So why a video now? Well, as director/animator Ian Hill explains, a load of unforeseen technical hurdles had to be overcome before the clip could be finished, and it's taken until now to get them ironed out. When you see the detail of the animation here, each discrete light object rendered in impossibly complex detail, it's not hard to imagine a snag or two along the way. The streaming video doesn't quite do the visuals justice, so if you have the time and the bandwidth, a large (300 MB) QuickTime file is also available here.

[from There's No 666 in Outer Space; out now on Ipecac]

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