Earlier this year, "Charlie Darwin," the opening track to The Low Anthem's Nonesuch debut, Oh My God, Charlie Darwin, was named one of the best songs of the year by NPR. Now, the band's moving music and lyrics have been set to beautiful images in a new video by Glenn Taunton and Simon Taffe, which premieres today on Stereogum. "The solemn, solitary pathos in Glenn Taunton's animated video for Low Anthem's 'Charlie Darwin' adds another layer of melancholia to the track," says Stereogum, "offering an affecting visual counterpart to Ben Knox Miller's fragile falsetto."
Earlier this year, "Charlie Darwin," the opening track to The Low Anthem's Nonesuch debut, Oh My God, Charlie Darwin, was named one of the best songs of the year by NPR's Bob Boilen. "I get chills the moment I hear this guy's voice," Boilen said of the band's Ben Knox Miller. Now, the band's moving music and lyrics have been set to beautiful images in a new animated video by Glenn Z Taunton and Simon Taffe for End of the Road Films, which premieres today on Stereogum.
"The solemn, solitary pathos in Glenn Taunton's animated video for Low Anthem's 'Charlie Darwin' adds another layer of melancholia to the track," says Stereogum, "offering an affecting visual counterpart to Ben Knox Miller's fragile falsetto." You can watch the video now at stereogum.com.
"There is no more haunting song so far this year than the Low Anthem’s gorgeous 'Charlie Darwin,'" says the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, echoing the sentiments above in a preview of the band's tour stop at Dallas's Granada Theater with Blind Pilot next Wednesday. The album's opening track "floats along on Ben Knox Miller’s angelic falsetto, mournful and delicate acoustic guitar and chilling harmony vocals." It's a song that "stays with you," says the paper, and, what's more, the album itself "is one of the year’s most rewarding folk breakthroughs, traversing the full spectrum of the uniquely American genre." Read more at star-telegram.com.
One night before the Dallas show, The Low Anthem and Blind Pilot will play the Bronze Peacock in the Houston House of Blues. The Houston Chronicle describes the band's creative instrumentation as "so varied as to be celebratory." The paper prefaces a brief interview with band member Jeff Prystowsky by summing things up this way: "There are elements of folk, blues and gospel, all served up with some rock fuel so as to not be one of those bands that makes antique music." Read more at chron.com.
And tune in to CBS Friday night at 10 PM ET to hear "Charlie Darwin" in a rather different context, on the latest episode of the show Numb3rs.
For more information on the tour, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.
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