Promise The Monsters release eery newstop-motion music video for her latest single!

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  Van Muylem    26 maart 2021

Having established herself as one of Sweden’s most esoteric and mesmerising songwriters, with critical acclaim from Uncut, Mojo, Clash and Pitchfork, and shows with the likes of Chelsea Wolfe, Mark Kozelek and Jens Lekman in recent years, Promise and the Monster (aka Billie Lindahl) has now returned to deliver a stunningly artful stop-motion music video for her latest single ‘Beating Heart’, lifted from her forthcoming new EP Chewing Gum’.


Having established herself as one of Sweden’s most esoteric and mesmerising songwriters, with critical acclaim from Uncut, Mojo, Clash and Pitchfork, and shows with the likes of Chelsea Wolfe, Mark Kozelek and Jens Lekman in recent years, Promise and the Monster (aka Billie Lindahl) has now returned to deliver a stunningly artful stop-motion music video for her latest single ‘Beating Heart’, lifted from her forthcoming new EP ‘Chewing Gum’ (April 30).

The single ‘Beating Heart’ marks her sophomore release through new label Icons Creating Evil Art, and continues that smooth and lofty aesthetic that Promise And The Monster is known for. Breathing an effortlessly warm and enticing atmosphere into this new work, her latest delight shows us that she is currently creating some of her most breathtaking material to date. The touch on frightening yet heartbreakingly sweet puppets in the video, created by Cissi Efraimsson who also joined in directing the video together with Love Martinsen and Billie herself, bring the story of the song to life in a whole new way.

Speaking about the new video, Billie says, "Cissi Efraimsson, who is a great puppet animator and artist, came up with the idea of making two bald, wide smiling sisters travelling to meet each other, dancing together in a velvet palace. She worked with the material for months, building small houses and train wagons, and then spent a lot of time animating the puppets to make them come alive. She filmed a real dancer and then copied his movements by moving one tiny little puppet part after the other, taking photos after every move. Me and Love then did some background animation where we painted landscapes and stars and clouds and did some stop motion action on that, then we assembled everything. A lot of work has been put into this thing and we are immensely proud of it. It is dreamlike and weird, and beautiful."

While adding about the single, "Beating Heart is about two sisters watching each others back through adulthood. One of them is more reckless though so the other one has a lot to do. It was fun recording the song since it got bigger and bigger all the time, like a suitcase full of random stuff."

The new music video for 'Beating Heart' went live on March 18th, premiered the day before by the award winning music and fashion magazine CLASH MagazinePromise And The Monster releases her new EP 'Chewing Gum' April 30, 2021 via Icons Creating Evil Art.

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