MJ Lenderman has shared a brand new music video for his Manning Fireworks single “Wristwatch.” Within the hilarious Lance Bangs-directed clip, Lenderman makes many failed makes an attempt to clear a low overpass whereas driving a pickup truck loaded with numerous gadgets: basketballs, brightly-colored pool floats, and extra. Watch Lenderman and members of his band the Wind star within the visible under.
“I had been drawn to make issues with Jake for some time, and spent the late summer season listening to the songs that may make up Manning Fireworks,” Lance Bangs mentioned of the collaboration with Lenderman in press supplies.
The director continued: “The imagery of characters caught in persistence with out progress that has recurred in his writing was there in ‘Wristwatch’ and that tune was the one I went again to probably the most whereas listening to the batch of recordings. I had seen low clearance bridges on this a part of North Carolina in my previous travels, a mismatch between the prepare trestles that have been constructed within the first half of the twentieth Century and the trendy 13ft top of most tractor trailers. Durham has a infamous one referred to as the ‘Canopener’ that’s featured on a web site and Youtube channel 11foot8.com by Jurgen Henn, who has captured 186 crashes since April of 2008. I took measurements and designed plans so as to add a number of extra crashes to Jurgen’s tally.”
Lenderman lately introduced the reissue of a 2021 collaborative six-song EP with Wednesday. Revisit Pitchfork’s 2023 interview “Low-Key Indie Rocker MJ Lenderman Wants to Tell a Bigger Story.”
