Moon Duo - Lost Heads

What this video is

Released in October 2019 alongside Moon Duo's album 'Stars Are the Light' on Sacred Bones Records, 'Lost Heads' arrived during a peak moment for psychedelic rock's crossover with electronic and dance music influences. The album drew on disco, 70s funk, and 90s rave, mixed by Sonic Boom of Spacemen 3 in Portugal, situating Moon Duo firmly within a lineage of cosmic, consciousness-expanding rock. The music video,…

Why it matters

The video exemplifies a strand of late-2010s psychedelic indie visual culture that embraced motion graphics as the primary cinematic language for cosmic rock — bypassing live performance entirely in favor of abstract, travel-metaphor animation. Its use of retro automotive and space imagery to…

The director

Andrew Knives is a motion designer and animator with over a decade of experience in graphic and motion design, represented by H+ Creative. He specializes in animation, motion graphics, and VFX, working primarily in Adobe Photoshop and After Effects. His…