King Krule, one of Music Times' favorite artists of 2013, has released his latest music video for his track "A Lizard State" off last year's 6 Feet Beneath The Moon. The Jamie-James Medina-directed video was inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 film Dial M For Murder and was even given go-ahead from Hitchcock's estate.
The video begins with footage of Hitchcock introducing Archy Marshall and leads into a black-and-white, gravity-defying performance that involves lizards, peep holes, film sets and phone calls. It's pretty cool.
Medina explained the concept for the video in a press statement saying, "Archy and I both love Hitchcock and we've spent a lot of time away from music talking about his films. When I heard the phone ringing over the intro all I could think about was Dial M For Murder and the scene where Grace Kelly answers the phone. That really started the conversation. I had this idea of Hitchcock introducing King Krule. I've seen every episode of Hitchcock Presents and every introduction that he gives is brilliant — you could use any episode and it would work. We loved the idea of Archy defying gravity and that being the setting for his performance. But right up until shooting we didn't know if we'd get permission to use the Hitchcock footage — to have him appear. Its such an honor that the Hitchcock estate gave us the opportunity. And then at the very end he said, 'and the room is full of lizards', so we had to find a set of lizards and managed to get a guy who entertains at children's parties."
Check out the throwback video here, and let us know what you think in the comments below!
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