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When it comes to The Real Tuesday Weld’s newest album The Last Werewolf: A Soundtrack, there’s something for everyone, whether you like music, books or the visual. This Music Monday, however, we’re highlighting the visual in particular: a creepy, yet sweet stop-motion animation video for the track, “Tear Us Apart.”
The Last Werewolf: A Soundtrack [iTunes link] is just that. However, it’s not a series of songs meant to accompany a film, but a companion to a book with the same name by Glen Duncan. Stephen Coates, the man behind The Real Tuesday Weld, previously worked with Duncan on a soundtrack to his book, I, Lucifer.
“When we did it the first time it came out of a drunken idea in a pub one night: ‘Let’s do a soundtrack to a book,’” he says. “We were quite surprised that other people didn’t start to do it, so we thought we’d do it again ourselves.”
While the video is “about the moon and transformation,” according to Coates, it’s not a direct take on the book itself. The director, Alex de Campi, created it without any knowledge of the book, instead basing it on the song. “I wanted to refer tangentially to the book, however, so I started off with the moon, and the idea of a love triangle — and of a wolf and a doe,” she says. “Out of that, and out of what the noises in the song suggested to me, came the absurdist love story in the film.”
“I love working with filmmakers because they hear your music in a different way than you hear it, and their images are different images than you have,” Coates says of the final product. “It brings something else to the music. It brings a whole different interpretation to the song.”
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When it comes to The Real Tuesday Weld’s newest album The Last Werewolf: A Soundtrack, there’s something for everyone, whether you like music, books or the visual. This Music Monday, however, we’re highlighting the visual in particular: a creepy, yet sweet stop-motion animation video for the track, “Tear Us Apart.”
The Last Werewolf: A Soundtrack [iTunes link] is just that. However, it’s not a series of songs meant to accompany a film, but a companion to a book with the same name by Glen Duncan. Stephen Coates, the man behind The Real Tuesday Weld, previously worked with Duncan on a soundtrack to his book, I, Lucifer.
“When we did it the first time it came out of a drunken idea in a pub one night: ‘Let’s do a soundtrack to a book,’” he says. “We were quite surprised that other people didn’t start to do it, so we thought we’d do it again ourselves.”
While the video is “about the moon and transformation,” according to Coates, it’s not a direct take on the book itself. The director, Alex de Campi, created it without any knowledge of the book, instead basing it on the song. “I wanted to refer tangentially to the book, however, so I started off with the moon, and the idea of a love triangle — and of a wolf and a doe,” she says. “Out of that, and out of what the noises in the song suggested to me, came the absurdist love story in the film.”
“I love working with filmmakers because they hear your music in a different way than you hear it, and their images are different images than you have,” Coates says of the final product. “It brings something else to the music. It brings a whole different interpretation to the song.”
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