Yeasayer - Ecstatic Baby

What this video is

Released June 6, 2019, 'Ecstatic Baby' arrived as the lead video single for Yeasayer's fifth album Erotic Reruns — their first release on their own Yeasayer Records imprint after previous stints on Secretly Canadian and Mute. The album was recorded by core members Chris Keating, Anand Wilder, and Ira Wolf Tuton in their home studios in Brooklyn and upstate New York, reflecting a broader 2010s trend of…

Why it matters

Yeasayer occupies a key node in the Brooklyn art-psych-pop lineage, blending worldbeat rhythms, dance-punk energy, and studio maximalism. 'Ecstatic Baby' is noted as a nod to NYC rhythmic No-Wave and dance-punk forebears such as Liquid Liquid and ESG. The video's Unity3D creature-pop aesthetic…

The director

PandaPanther is a New York-based animation studio founded in late 2006 by directors Jonathan Garin and Naomi Nishimura. The studio is known for combining high-end 3D animation with illustration, design, stop motion, and live action. Originally launched with…