Canadian indie rockers/folk collective The Acorn released Glory Hope Mountain earlier this March in the U.S. and “Flood Pt. 1″ is is their first video from this wild ride of a work in narrative storytelling.
The video is helmed by Christopher Mills, who we haven’t seen on the music video scene since his early ’00s work with bands like Broken Social Scene, Modest Mouse & Interpol. His beautiful aesthetics make an interesting match for this almost tribal sounding song and detail an epic journey, almost in the style of filmmaker Terrence Malick - very grandiose and with heavy focus on the landscape, almost to the point of it being a character in the narrative.
This is certainly one of the most well matched song and video combinations we’ve seen in 2008.
