Photo Credit: Sinna Nasseri
Real Estate have shared their music video for “Flowers”, the latest single off their new album “Daniel” which was released on February 23rd via Domino Records.
The animated video was directed by Magnus Carlsson who also created Radiohead’s “Paranoid Android” video. In it, band members assist singer Martin Courtney through a difficult physical transformation, which yields a sparkling gem of a song.
“For me, the greatest animated music video of all time is Magnus Carlsson’s iconic ‘Paranoid Android’ video for Radiohead,” Martin says of the video. “It looked like nothing else on MTV in 1997. So when we decided to do an animated video for our next single, that was at the top of the mood board. Let’s make something like the ‘Paranoid Android’ video. It didn’t even occur to us that we could actually ask Magnus Carlsson himself to make a video for our song, or that he would actually do it, or that it would end up just as weird and beautiful as we could have imagined. Big thanks to the legend Mr. Carlsson for being up for working with us.”
“This song is the closest Real Estate will ever get to like a Shania Twain style country rocker,” the band says of the track. “We keep saying we didn’t go to Nashville to make a country record – we didn’t – but then we put out shit like this. Who cares though this song rocks. Check out that guitar solo.”
Be sure to catch the band as they perform at The Concert Hall in Toronto on April 6th. Tickets are available here.
