Not long ago, New York’s Happy Body Slow Brain decided to drop some syllables and announced that they’d be going by Rare Futures moving forward. With that, the groove rock four-piece—led by Matt Fazzi (Taking Back Sunday, A Great Big Pile Of Leaves, Atlas Genius, The Dear Hunter)—announced a brand new full-length album, titled This Is Your Brain On Love, which is set to release in March via In The Clouds Records.

The album’s lead single, “The Pressure,” recently got the visual treatment in the form of a beautiful, space-themed, stop motion animated video courtesy of director Justin Burgos, who created the piece over the course of a year-plus in his Portland, Oregon garage.

You can check out the video below (via Nerdist) where you’ll also find some words from Fazzi regarding the creation process and the band’s gratitude to those who worked on it.

This Is Your Brain On Love can be pre-ordered through Bandcamp in a variety of massive bundle options.

The video was a labor of love that took almost a year-and-a-half to make from the creation of the story to the final product, so we’re thrilled it finally gets to see the light of day!

Justin Burgos and Gerrit Smith from Rough N’ Tumble Productions deserve a ton of love and credit for putting a painstaking amount of time, energy and detail into the filming and production. They did an amazing job bringing the story to life and creating a real universe for our spaceman to live in. Also sending more love and thanks out to Keith Lancaster, Devon Hoyt, and Meghan Fazzi for playing a part in the completion of the video.

On behalf of the band and the Rough N’ Tumble Crew, we hope you enjoy the ride!

Fazzi further explained to Nerdist:

“Justin Burgos and I had cooked up the story together while he was visiting me in New York, and we chose stop-motion because it’s an old style that we loved growing up, watching shows like ‘Wallace and Gromit,’ ‘Gumby,’ and ‘Mr. Bogus.’ ‘The Pressure’ video is actually Justin’s very first full-length stop-motion undertaking, having only done short clips previously. I came up with a lot of the imagery in the story simply based on visuals given to me by certain climactic moments in the music, and used those as pillars to build around—i.e. this part sounds like a rocket launching, or this section is where the spaceman goes into warp speed. The story almost wrote itself around the song in that way, it was all very natural.”

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