Video: "Fast Lane" via IFC MP3: "Fast Lane" via RCRD LBL

Today, Helsinki based art-pop band Husky Rescue debut their mind-melting video for "Fast Lane" on IFC.com.  No strangers to top-notch quality music videos, their latest is no exception in pushing the artform forward.  IFC reports, "This video for "Fast Lane" pits the mind against visual spectacle in what seems to be one long take of an animated back drop.  Directed by Anthony Bentley, there is no digital tampering, all the trickery is hand made.  Once you see it through, it's quite clear what's being done, but there are still visually confounding elements -- especially where this roller stops and then reverses over inexplicably new terrain where no edit is detectable."

Video director Anthony Bentley remarks on the video's creation, "The video is basically a mixed-technique, ever-evolving painting on a moving canvas, that gives us a sensation of traveling through painted worlds.  My main mindset was to deliberately steer away from all possible digital trickery we - as filmmakers - have grown accustomed to and that often feels aversive.  Hence I chose to realize it in a purely "analogue" technique which involved me building a 1.5m x 3.5 m construction with a big canvas stretched between two rotating cylinders and put into motion with an accurately computer-controller motor.  This was pretty much all uncharted territory for both myself and everyone I know but ended up being very rewarding in the end. I believe these decisions made it tangible in a way never achievable by means of digital image generation or manipulation.  Most importantly I feel this way the original idea translated into something that talks the same language as Husky Rescue's music, which to me is very organic despite all its electronic ingredients."

News on a special edition of their new album after the jump.... Their latest effort, Ship Of Light, is full of haunting, gorgeous songs that burn brightly within icy atmospheres touching on new wave, krautrock, and chilly Scandinavian pop.  In addition to the album, the special edition will include a second disc with a bonus track, alternate sessions, and instrumentals.  A third disc includes a DVD with live performances and music videos.  The special edition will also have wallpapers, track stems, badges, and artcards you can only find in this new version.

"An impressionistic voyage through icy Nordic soundscapes and atmospheric pop, with captain and head dream weaver Marko Nyburg at the tiller, deftly navigating his band through little-charted interstices of sound -- touching on orchestral grandeur, acoustic folk, hazy synth-draped ambience, and surprisingly robust rock -- and of emotion -- evoking both wistful sweetness and dark, melancholic gloom without fully succumbing to either." - All Music Guide

"Their most assured and adventurous yet, blending their typically chilly ambient pop with more muscular and aggressive bits of post-punk, new wave, German prog-rock and more on a variety of haunting pop songs featuring a dynamic combination of icy synths, buzzing guitars, colorful orchestration, unsettling ambient noises and Reeta Vestman's fragile vocals." - KEXP.com

Watch: Husky Rescue's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" inspired video for "They Are Coming" directed by Peter Riski, included in the Ship of Light Special Edition.