Bibio - Raincoat

What this video is

Released in 2013 to accompany the Silver Wilkinson album on Warp Records, this session video sits within a broader early-2010s trend of artist-directed, unmediated performance documents distributed via Vimeo and YouTube. Bibio, born Stephen James Wilkinson in Wolverhampton, built a practice combining folktronica, ambient, lo-fi guitar, and beat production — a sensibility rooted in nostalgia and English pastoral…

Why it matters

Represents a critically important strand of 2010s indie-electronic video-making: the lo-fi session document as artistic statement. Bibio's folktronica synthesis — acoustic guitar, pastoral lyricism, analogue production warmth — is made visually legible through a single-shot, near-static video that…

The director

Stephen James Wilkinson (born 4 December 1978, Wolverhampton, England) records and performs as Bibio. He studied Sonic Arts at Middlesex University 1999–2002. His recording career began on Mush Records in 2004; he signed to Warp Records in 2008. He is…