Thursday, September 11, 2014

Storytelling with Wolf & Crow

Nothing beats a strong story.

Folk band Wolf & Crow (Mathieu Stemmelen and Zachary Vieira) tell a compelling love story in their "Love in the Time of Advertising." Their simultaneously dry and imaginative sense of humor adds warmth to the story that's beautifully animated by Matt Berenty.

 

It's an endearing little love story about how nothing beats human interaction. The earnestness with which Wolf & Crow tell it and Berenty animates it sell it, but none of that would matter if the story itself wasn't strong.

When it comes right down to it, music videos are about telling a song's story. It doesn't hurt that "Love in the Time of Advertising" is a narrative poem set to old-timey country pickin'. The video doesn't give much evidence of whether or not Wolf & Crow have much going for them as musicians, but as storytellers they can't be beat.

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