The Helio Sequence

"Battle Lines" (video)

BY Gregory AdamsPublished Jul 10, 2015

Pacific Northwest indie pop mainstays the Helio Sequence have been keen on offering up colourful animated videos to promote their spring-released self-titled album. They're keeping pace throughout the summer, having just let loose a rotoscoped piece of whimsy behind the record's "Battle Lines."

While the track itself plays out via relaxed dance-rock grooves and diamond glitter guitar lines, the visuals are noticeably busier. As you'll see down below, ink and paint swirls about the screen to form, if only for a micro-second, various figures.

Elsewhere, a hand-drawn body dances through a PeeWee's Playhouse-inspired room of geometric decor, while animator Emanuele Kabu has traced over a real-time performance from the Helio Sequence and covered it in neon rays of light.

You'll find the ever-shifting animated video down below.

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