Monteagle Announces 'A Colorful Moth', Shares Daniel Henry Directed Video for Track Tan!
We’re excited to announce a new EP entitled 'A Colorful Moth' from Justin Wilcox's Monteagle project out May 22nd on Fire Talk! Paired with a video for the stark and spacious new song "Tan" directed by Dan Henry, whose work includes music videos for Kurt Vile, Dawes, Jack White, Foster the People and more. The integration of field recording and ambient sound perfectly compliments Henry's video and turns Monteagle's new single into a truly immersive experience. The somewhat dark atmospheric tune that takes some cues from American Primitive but also shows off Wilcox's incredibly adept production work. Speaking to the song Wilcox says it’s;
“Stream of conscious. Wrote what came to mind. There were pigeons outside of this coffee shop and they were vial and mangy. So just wrote what popped in my head then performed it later that day. Sometimes when you write something and don’t think about it you can later look back and find meaning. I feel that this is a great example of finding hope and beauty in a time of intense negativity."
Speaking to the experience of creating the stunning visuals Dan Henry explains;
"Coming from the past few years where everything has to be fast, slick, and immediately engaging; Tan is a slow and patient protest to the pressures of overindulgence. Saying something louder doesn’t make it more powerful. I wanted to string together a series of images that evoke a reaction and also hint at a bigger story about the sameness of everything. For me, every year around New Years comes with a dark cloud. This past year in particular was filled with loss and a heaviness that has stuck with me. I want these images to speak to a larger narrative that runs through all our lives. Things that are constant, but also things that are impermanent, fragile and always at work.
I was overcome by the freedom that came with having the insanely small crew of only myself and friend/collaborator/DP Dustin Lane. What resulted was more intuitive and guttural than anything that happens with a larger crew. We could be slow and wait for the scenes to unfold, or we could walk right in and get next to our subjects, hear from them, without scaring them away with production, because there was no production… but we had a dog."
