(reprinted from The Atlantik)
Shugo Tokumaru’s music seems deceptively simple, at first. “He creates toy-box indie pop with his vast collection of noise makers and a computer,” Pitchfork’s Joe Tangari explains in a review for Tokumaru’s latest album, In Focus? “[He] can pile instruments all over each other in a way that makes no sense on paper and then make it come off as the most natural thing in the world.” Two Polish artists, Katarzyna Kijek and Przemyslaw Adamski, seem to approach stop-motion animation the same way. For this music video for “Katachi,” which means “shape” in Japanese, they layered thousands of PVC cutouts to create dynamic, 3-D sculptures.