Pitchfork Forkcast: Video: Bonnie "Prince" Billy: "The Seedling"

Video: Bonnie "Prince" Billy: "The Seedling"

The creepy trailer doesn't lie: A new video has sprouted up for Bonnie "Prince" Billy's "The Seedling", from last year's excellent The Letting Go. While this clip doesn't have Kanye or comedian Zack Galifianakis, its scenes make up in spine-tingles what they lack in knee-slaps. Directed by Aran Reo Mann, the video opens to jellyfish-like shapes that give way to a hat-wearing Will Oldham-- face in shadows, menacing lips a phosphorescent blue.

As Oldham's Appalachian-style guitar plays, another man dons his overcoat and heads into the woods with a lantern. The setting is dark and misty, the way it somehow managed to be every night on The X-Files. When the man returns home with mushrooms, the video closes with confirmation of Billy's urgent chorus: "Birdies say I've got no children/ Birdies never know."

Video:> Bonnie "Prince" Billy: "The Seedling"

[from The Letting Go; out now on Palace/Drag City]