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Wild Beasts 'A Simple Beautiful Truth' by Klaus Thymann & Mike Hughes

David Knight - 16th Apr 2014

A Simple Beautiful Truth, from Wild Beasts' acclaimed new album Present Tense, has inspired this joyous video directed by Klaus Thymann and Mike Hughes, which sees the band wearing electric suits and dancing around the Brecon Beacons. 

It's an unbeatable combination of stunning scenery with absurdist behaviour - with wonderfully inventive costume design by Grace Snell.

As band themselves explain, it's strongly influenced by the approach of David Byrne and Talking Heads with their wonderful videos back in the 1980s.   

"We were inspired enough by the absurdist approach taken by Talking Heads to don electric suits and dance in the ether on the top of a Beacons mountain," say Wild Beasts. "We wanted to capture the weightlessness of a song like A Simple Beautiful Truth, to attempt something so ridiculous as to be sublime.

"The experience was strangely liberating and we asked ourselves why we hadn't done this before."

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David Knight - 16th Apr 2014

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Credits

Production/Creative

Director
Klaus Thymann
Director
Mike Hughes
Producer
Samuel Aberg
Production Company
Squash'em Ltd

Wardrobe

Make-up
Luca Portadibasso
Costume designer
Grace Snell

Editorial

Editor
Phil Hignett
Editing company
Marshall St Editors

Grading

Colourist
James Tillett
Grading company
MPC

Commission

Commissioner
John Moule
Label
Domino

David Knight - 16th Apr 2014

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