Pottery - Take Your Time

What this video is

Released March 4, 2020, weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the global music industry, 'Take Your Time' arrived as the second single from Pottery's debut LP Welcome to Bobby's Motel (Partisan Records). The video is entirely animated and directed by the band's own drummer Paul Jacobs — a hallmark of the DIY, band-integrated creative model championed by Partisan's roster. The song itself is the band's…

Why it matters

Represents a key artifact of the 2018–2022 post-punk revival's animated video subgenre, where DIY illustration replaced performance footage as the primary visual language. Pottery's alignment with the Devo-meets-Talking Heads lineage — hyperactive dance-punk with art-school conceptual rigor — is…

The director

Paul Jacobs is the drummer of Montreal-based post-punk quintet Pottery, signed to Partisan Records. Beyond his role as percussionist, Jacobs functions as the band's primary visual artist, handling design, illustration, storyboarding, and direction for…