Watch: The Mountain Goats - “Sax Rohmer #1″

By Alex Young on January 30th, 2008

The Mountain Goats will release “Sax Rohmer #1″ as the first single off their upcoming album Heretic Pride (out February 19 via 4AD).

The video was directed by Ace Norton, who has worked with everyone from Bloc Party to Mandy Moore. This is also the first Mountain Goat’s video that features new drummer Jon Wurster.

“John’s a fantastic lyricist,” begins Norton. “He’s one of those few artists where you really pay attention to what he’s saying when listening to his music. I guess the idea for this video sprung from that - as a means to further emphasize his amazing song writing ability. I was in New York at the time, in this Starbucks, endlessly listening to the song on repeat and suddenly the concept just popped in my head. I immediately told John and he really dug it.

“Physically painting the words was the easy part because we had about 3 other artists helping out on set. Figuring out the plot and path of the camera was a bit tricky. Since the entire video is one shot, we had to be very precise with the size and distance of each word.

“To further perfect it, we actually shot the entire video at half the speed so we could match up the lyrics in perfect time. Needles to say there was a ton of pre- planning involved…

[Drowned in Sound]

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“Sax Rohmer #1″

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