Photo by POND Creative

“I wanted to tap into a feeling of being outside in the cold and wanting something,” Dimitri Giannopolous explains of the sound behind “Snow Angel”, the latest single from Horse Jumper of Love’s new album, Disaster Trick. On immediate reaction, it may seem like a tall task to grasp when it’s sweltering heat out right now, but as the best artists do, so does HJoL in transporting the mind some place else with some help from the David Berman writing technique, who in his Actual Air poem “Snow” imagined snow angels as beings shot dead by farmers, isolated in their tracks. Here, that continues in morbid motif in liquifying them into a melt (ergo, enter summer…) that swashes around under the radiator that is the band’s slowcore-shoegaze atmosphere, and a sun ripped open by one MJ Lenderman. It’s music video, directed by the legendary alternative visual auteur Lance Bangs, turns HJoL equally into puddle, burning goodbyes into the dark and loneliness. That’s still the coldest feeling no matter what the thermometer reads.

Directed by: Lance Bangs

Horse Jumper of Love’s Disaster Trick will be released August 16th on Run for Cover Records.