MUSIC FROM SPACE: Grizzly Bear - READY, ABLE

Via our friends at Cartoon Brew, here's Allison Shulnik's spectacular, beautiful, creepy and sad stop-motion music video for the Grizzly Bear song Ready, Able.

Two psychedelic, shape-shifting swamp monsters meet on opposite banks of a river and signal their friendly intentions by putting on a crazy transmogrification show for each other, until a sinister crystalline UFO arrives and abducts one of them, putting him/her/it on display in an alien monster zoo. Sure, it's a plot we've all seen a million times before, but it's certainly executed well.

For my fellow hardcore comics dorks out there: Doesn't this thing play exactly like a Swamp Thing story as rendered by one of the Fort Thunder guys?



(Note that this video features a short sequence after the credits!)


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