pencil - The Giant (Official Music Video)
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London quintet pencil share their debut single "The Giant", along with the video directed by Luke Ainger. Out now on Moshi Moshi Singles Club.

LISTEN/DOWNLOAD: https://lnk.to/thegiant

For frontman Kamran Khan, the pencil is the ultimate creative tool. It can be sharpened, snapped in half, or kept pristine to erase old stories and create new ones.

The band explain about The Giant: "The Giant" is a song about the pain of growth - growing up, growing apart, growing old. It started life with Coco’s violin. The whirlpool arpeggio immediately caught our ears and we started figuring out a chord sequence for the verse together. The idea sat as a voice memo for a few days before one rare morning, when all the lyrics were written in one sitting. We then arranged the song as a band before recording it live with Polly Mackey (aka Artschool Girlfriend) at Goldsmiths University.

On the video, director Luke Ainger says: “After first hearing The Giant, I was really interested by the idea of making something that had the tone of an old children’s fable. Something which seemed nostalgic, magical, whilst maintaining the slight sinister feeling that often accompanies classic children’s tales. My day job is in film development/processing, so I was keen to see how we could push this tone through the film’s texture. Rik Burnel and I chose to shoot on Double-X (one of the oldest film stocks still in use) and pushed it by 2 stops during development, creating this unusual and dream-like sentimentality.”

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CREDITS
Director/Producer: Luke Ainger
1st Assistant Director: Zand Maroof
Director of Photography:Rik Burnel
1st Assistant Camera: Joseph McDonald
Gaffer: Thomas Thain
Spark: Omar Biuiiuktosun
Production Design: Chloe Boston
Editor: Chris Hutchings
VFX: Fred Qvortrup

With thanks to:
Leo Ruff, Time Patrol & One Stop Films

The Giant is played by: Dougie.