Huffington Post Premieres "Deo Gratias" Video Directed by Chris Mills (Modest Mouse, Interpol)
Montreal-based Krief, aka Patrick Krief―former lead guitarist and vocalist with The Dears―shares a lyric video to his new single “Deo Gratias” directed by Christopher Mills (Modest Mouse, Interpol). The song is taken off of his forthcoming double album Automanic, which will be released September 30 on Culvert Music.
According to the lyric video’s director, Christopher Mills...
“The snare drum rim shot buried in Patrick’s lush production of ‘Deo Gratias’ felt like an old clock to me. I the instrumentation made me think of gears and bells, and Patrick’s soft, haunting voice made me think of a ghost inside a clock, waiting and longing. I also liked the idea that the video could have twitches to it―a bit like some kind of time lapse, or film-gate type of thing, so I projected Patrick’s image, and the lyrics into the curved glass of the clock, and used the abstract blur to create the ‘twitches’ that come at unexpected moments, and to build the final composite of these very simple ideas, loosely assembled to back this lush song.”