Dec 17, 2018

One of the better breakout band of the year was Young Jesus. Their record The Whole Thing is Just There was one of the better albums of the year as well, and the track “Fourth Zone of Gaits” might just be the best song on it. Today, Young Jesus shared its video, directed and animated by Peter Nichols. Young Jesus videos thusfar have been artful and clever and this one is no different. Check it out.

“We chose to work with Peter on this video because we’d seen his work and we knew that a sort of other-worldly pacing was a part of it. I had him and the rest of the band over to my apartment where we brainstormed as the song played on loop. He asked us thoughtful questions, we responded with lots of stories and feelings. The name, Fourth Zone of Gaits, is a reference to horse gaits, a trot, a gallop…John was imagining a gait that feels like something else. I think of it as moving along a wave, if you accept it as your context and listen to it, you float. None of us surf but we talked about waves a lot, which Peter understood. Light waves, radio waves, sound waves, the fact that matter exists as both particles and waves. Maybe God is a harp player that invented physics. This is what’s going on in the video.” – Young Jesus