Tom Brown has completed the music video for the song, “I Can’t Be Beautiful”! We're thrilled to share it with you. Watch it here:
Tom took the song somewhere I didn’t expect. He created a moving painting, then began tearing it apart with glitch and datamosh techniques, pushing bold shapes and colors to the point of complete fracture. Here’s how he describes it:
“I’ve always loved the rich, noisy, textural sound of Feeding Fingers and I enjoy finding ways to represent that visually. For this video I was thinking about different types of beauty, like the calm serenity in the work of modern minimalist and abstract painters like Ellsworth Kelly, Carmen Herrera and Wassily Kandinsky. I wanted to make a moving painting inspired by those artists but disrupt it with a bold digital glitch aesthetic and force the viewer to fight their way through the noise to see the artwork beneath.”
About Tom Brown
Tom is a freelance motion graphic designer based in London. He works across music videos, commercials and immersive visuals for concerts. He is also one half of Magnetic Foragers, the UK audiovisual duo he runs with James Allard, who make experimental noise music and abstract visuals. Magnetic Foragers performed live as a support act for Feeding Fingers in Manchester in 2014.
He has made several videos for Feeding Fingers over the years:
“Where All of These Towns and Choices End”
“Goodbyes That Last for Years”
And now “I Can’t Be Beautiful”
You can see (and hear) more of his work at tombrownvisual.com and magneticforagers.com.
The Album: I Won’t Eat the Horror (2021)
“I Can’t Be Beautiful” is track ten on I Won’t Eat the Horror - our 2021 album. If you haven’t heard it, or haven’t in a while, this is a good time to come back to it.
Listen and buy:
Bandcamp (Physical & Digital): feedingfingers.bandcamp.com/album/i-wont-eat-the-horror-2021-album. You can stream it with the Bandcamp app or download it in MP3, FLAC and more. It is also available in physical editions there too, together with a handwritten lyric book (if you like).
Streaming: also on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, etc.
The Album Art:
The cover art for the album is by the fantastic Polist artist (and dear friend), Agnieszka Wyszła.
The Other Music Videos for the Album:
“Eat My Eyes or Please Them” was directed and animated by Steven Lapcevic, who has also made videos for “Fireflies Make Us Sick,” “Blisters First,” “Your Candied Laughter Crawls”, “Model Lives and Fallen Leaves” and others with Feeding Fingers over the years.
“Goodbyes That Last for Years” is Tom’s earlier video for this album.
Where Your Support Goes
Everything you buy, stream or share helps us fund the release of the forthcoming ninth Feeding Fingers album. Your support goes directly toward finishing it, pressing it, creating original artwork and covering pre and post-production. It’s also how a band that has been going for twenty years now keeps making records the way we want to.
If you’d like to help:
Buy the album and the lyric book via BandCamp (links above).
Join the Patreon at patreon.com/JustinCurfman1 for regular updates.
Share the video with people that you think would love it.
Thank you for being here, for listening and for making all of this possible over the years.
Best Wishes,
Justin
Feeding Fingers