While you’re not looking

I can’t talk pas­sion­ately about M. Ward of late because his catchy pop tunes are meld­ing into one. The peak of his career was Trans­fig­u­ra­tion of Vin­cent in 2003. His untuned, raw sound was refresh­ing and has now become his defin­i­tive style. It is com­fort­ingly eas­ier to rework and mas­ter your tech­nique but it is a fine line between refin­ing and fol­low­ing a tem­plate. My admi­ra­tion awaits when he unties from this convention.

Directed by Joel Trussell & Eric John­son. Ani­mated by Gene Blake­field & Darin Ben­dall with addi­tional art assis­tance from Chris Chua.
Music by M. Ward. The track Chi­nese Trans­la­tion is taken from Post-War.