Horse Jumper of Love have unveiled a new single, ‘Snow Angel’, which features contributions from MJ Lenderman and Squirrel Flower. Accompanied by a music video from director Lance Bangs, the track opens the band’s forthcoming album Disaster Trick. Check it out below.
“A lot of my songs start with an image and then stream of consciousness takes over from there,” the band’s Dimitri Giannopolous explained in a statement. “I had this idea of a snow angel melting in the sun. It stemmed from the first poem in Actual Air called ‘Snow.’ Through this piece, David Berman explores the idea of snow metaphorically and abstractly. He relates the outdoors sounding like a room when it’s snowing and snow angels being shot by a farmer, vulnerable and isolated… I wanted to tap into a feeling of being outside in the cold and wanting something.”
Lance Bangs added: “‘Snow Angel’ felt like it wanted to be expressed visually as a kinetic, enveloping barrage of vision-confusion. We built contraptions, invented new techniques, prepared loud versions of the song at various speeds. After one particular take we realized we had conjured something in a continuous shot that didn’t look like things we had seen before, and that we didn’t want to look away or cut away to anything else.”
Disaster Trick is set for release on August 16 through Run for Cover. In addition to MJ Lenderman and Squirrel Flower, it features Wednesday’s Karly Hartzman, who contributed guest vocals on previous single ‘Wink’.