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[Premiere] of Montreal’s New Video Stars Stop-Motion Skeletons and a Bunny Band

"Last Rites at the Jane Hotel," off their latest album, is a visual dichotomy perfectly in tune with the Georgia-based rockers' psychedelic sound.

Psychedelic rockers of Montreal released their 13th album, Aureate Gloom (Polyvinyl Records), this spring. The Georgia-based outfit is known for the duplicity of their upbeat music riddled with dark and often cerebral lyrics. Their song “Last Rites at the Jane Hotel” is a prime example of this dichotomy, and so is its new music video.

“The tone of the song’s lyrics are quite dark… but the music has this technicolor and upbeat kind of tone to it so I think that’s what I tried to do with the video. There’s a lot of morbid elements,” the video's director, Matthew Cooper, tells The Creators Project. “I tried to represent those very vivid, bubblegum sort of color schemes.”

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The video is entirely composed of stop-motion animation, and the process to make it took several months: “I animated everything in 2D first, and then all those things were cut out of wood and then hand-painted,” explains Cooper.

Enter the DIY world of “Last Rites at the Jane Hotel” below.

of Montreal's "Last Rites at the Jane Hotel" and the rest of Aureate Gloom is available for purchase on Bandcamp.

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