Chad VanGaalen - Pine and Clover

What this video is

Released in July 2017 as the second single from 'Light Information' (Sub Pop/Flemish Eye, September 8, 2017), 'Pine and Clover' exemplifies the mid-2010s flowering of artist-as-total-auteur music video practice, in which musicians with visual art backgrounds bypassed conventional video production infrastructure entirely. VanGaalen's self-animated videos were already well-known in indie circles via Adult Swim…

Why it matters

Represents a landmark in Canadian indie art-rock music video production: a fully self-realized animated work by an artist-musician that functions simultaneously as music promo, short animated film, and outsider art object. Demonstrates the expanded definition of the 'music video' form in the…

The director

Chad VanGaalen (born 1977) is a Canadian musician, artist, and animator from Calgary, Alberta. Beyond his recording career, he is a prolific self-animator who has directed music videos for his own work and for other artists, including Tanya Tagaq ('Centre',…