Oasis have unleashed their first single, and now first video, from seventh studio album
Dig Out Your Soul.You wouldn't expect them to reinvent the wheel - and they don't - but it gets the job done and will make countless salesmen and middle management types very happy as they rock up and down the motorway in their company cars.
The video was directed by Julian House and Julian Gibbs at INTRO in London, who also created the cut and paste
Doves videos:
“Both the album and the video were inspired by Terry Gilliam. The
insane stop motion cut and paste collages were from Czech Jan Lenica
and the American animator, Stan Vanderbeek. The influences are English
surrealism, apocalyptic imagery meets fairy tales, pre-pop art. It’s a
tsunami of psychedelic English pop art.
“The video for Shock of the Lightning relates to the album artwork,
but we wanted it to have a specific feeling of its own. We wanted it to
feel filmic. By using stop motion animation it was possible to bring
life to an After Effects project, so it could have come out of the
experimental 60s.
Personally, I wish it was more nuts - like Michael Jackson's "Leave Me Alone".
But then I say that about everything.
Click here to watch a lovely shiny Quicktime version of "Shock Of The Lightning."
But if you must experience a really crappy version, watch it below...
Really, you should just go to Quicktime.
Ok,if you must...