Endlessly fascinating US-to-UK alt-rock success story,
The Backseat Lovers expand their creative realm once more with a breathtaking, stop-motion video for their fan-favourite, intimate, slow-burn anthem,
Snowbank Blues. Having only just left their swelling, in-the-know mass of European fans behind after a blast through seven,
SOLD OUT venues including a celebratory night at
London’s O2 Forum Kentish Town, the
Utah four-piece’s parting gift is a playful and emotive film able to raise both smiles and tears.
After premiering the video in front of an invited audience of fans back home at the
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, the band’s project with
Colin Lepper, an
Emmy-nominated director specialising in stop-motion animation has been released to global fans online. The video has been intricately crafted to bring it’s felt-and-buttons character to life, pitting the cute, lost, subterranean persona at the centre of the story against a hopelessly lost cause and capture the longing imbued in the track’s chorus:
“Wish I could roll the windows down/ But the snow has swallowed up our little town.”
Lepper says of making of the video: “Creating this video for The Backseat Lovers was an absolute joy for me and a true labor of love. The trust and creative freedom I was granted every step of the way was so liberating, and having such a powerfully emotional song at its core really made this a dream project. I first fell in love with stop-motion when I was 14 by doing just this, making music videos in my bedroom to songs that inspired me, so to get to revisit that format years later with such a talented group was a very special experience. I hope the attention and care that went into every frame of this video results in something that people can connect with, and does this beautiful song some justice.”
Snowbank Blues is drawn from the band’s 2022, second album,
Waiting To Spill, the follow-up to their phenomenally successful, self-recorded and released 2020 debut,
When We Were Friends which catapulted the band into the consciousness of an international community of music-lovers. Dealing with that immediate success as young people, friends and artists, the video follows
Waiting To Spill’s purposely challenging song-structures and experimental recording methods, drawing on influences such as
Radiohead and
Wilco, as The Backseat Lovers restlessly explore all possible avenues of expression.
