Mount Kimbie - Fishbrain

What this video is

Released February 7, 2024, 'Fishbrain' arrived as the lead single for Mount Kimbie's long-awaited fourth album, The Sunset Violent — their first fully collaborative studio record since Love What Survives (2017). The video reflects a broader 2020s trend of independent UK artists using handcrafted animation as an expressive and economically viable alternative to live-action production. Thematically, Williams'…

Why it matters

Represents the mature convergence of UK post-dubstep, shoegaze, and indie electronica in the mid-2020s. The video's animated form distinguishes it from the performance-based conventions of the genre, aligning instead with the experimental visual traditions of Warp Records and the broader…

The director

Tegen Williams is a UK-based animator, videographer, and director known for handcrafted animation work in music video contexts. Williams co-directed the Mount Kimbie and King Krule collaboration 'Blue Train Lines' (2017) alongside Raf Fellner, and returned…