icy friday nights in january, a glowing Moon, and The National
Kinda like a warm liqueur seeping through the messes of this week, tonight I came across these two National videos and they help ameliorate things. As I wrote after I saw them at Coachella: “The National carved something out of me and put something back in, is the best way I can put it.”
These videos are both shot by Vincent Moon, the amazingly artistic and evocative videographer behind many of the Blogotheque videos (who I got to meet once and totally dorked out over). I love how both of these never quite relent, never quite let you see all the way through the darkness, into something clear.
First, “Abel,” and the chaos of a mind not right:
Side note: I just saw Everything Absent Or Distorted end their set with this last week [read my Denver Post review], and it’s been etched on my brain since then. I’m no Vincent Moon but I wish I’d brought my little digital video camera because it was a phenomenal rendition of a cathartic song.
And then “Baby, We’ll Be Fine,” a song whose lyrics always scrape at me. There’s so much uncertainty in the words, but then these perfect reassurances are offered — even while I sense that the protagonist here needs the reassurance the most.
The good news is I survived this kicker of a week. Baby, we’ll be fine.
Name: Heather Browne
I am similarly in love with Baby We’ll Be Fine. Oddly enough, though, I heard this cover of it before the original,
http://www.mobiusband.com/music/mp3/love/02BabyWellBeFine.mp3
and may actually like it just as much? I think it’s a fun take.
Chris — January 24, 2009 @ 5:41 am
i like the mobius version better. And also the other covers on the mini album it came from – a free valentine’s love song bittersweetness they have on their website.
rick — January 24, 2009 @ 2:16 pm
Don’t know if you also saw that there’s a third video in this series (“About Today”) and it’s equally fantastic.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x19vpm_the-national-about-today-life3_creation
upto12 — January 30, 2009 @ 12:08 pm