Grizzly Bear - While You Wait for the Others

What this video is

Released in September 2009 as a single from Grizzly Bear's critically acclaimed third album Veckatimest (Warp Records, May 26 2009), this video arrived at the apex of the late-2000s indie blogosphere era, when animated art-directed music videos were a primary vehicle for building cult credibility. The track itself ranked in Pitchfork's Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s and the album debuted at #8 on the US Billboard 200.…

Why it matters

Grizzly Bear's chamber-pop and baroque indie rock occupied a prestigious critical space in 2009; this video's stop-motion collage aesthetic became emblematic of the era's intersection between art-world visual sensibility and indie music promotion, influencing how labels and directors approached…

The director

Sean Pecknold is an award-winning independent film, animation, and music video director from Seattle, Washington, based in Los Angeles, CA. Working under the alias Grandchildren, he won the Special Jury Prize at SXSW 2009 for 'White Winter Hymnal' (Fleet…