Taken from their 2017 album, Lifeblood, “Circles” is likely the duo’s most popular track, however, there’s no unpacking this video. It’s deeper and denser than anything your subconscious can dredge up about your childhood, because at its very foundation Pineo & Loeb’s new video for “Circles ft. Kayo” is the bedrock of the 80s.
Featuring more plastic than the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the video for “Circles” looks like a Game Genie cast an evil spell of everything that’s been hiding under your bed since before you survived Y2K. It’s got more action figures in it than a season of Transformers.
Working with award winning Halifax-based stop-motion animator Tim Tracey, the video has taken over a year to produce. Aside from physically animating each of the figures, Pineo and Loeb actually got together with Tracey to construction them from cobbled together bits of your childhood heroes.
“Tim Tracey has a huge studio in Halifax with thousands of figurines and action figures its crazy,” says JR Loeb. “We took pieces and bits from other figures and combined them.”
Halifax legend and weather forecaster Frankie MacDonald makes a special appearance with his official figurine, and Pineo & Loeb also fit prominently into the video courtesy of a couple retro-fitted GI Joes.
“We are made from GI Joes that were painted to look like our outfits,” says Loeb.
It’s an impressive collection that will make you realize that perhaps all those yardsales that your parents had after you went away to university might have been a bad deal. If only you’d held onto your prized childhood possessions you could be filming the dance remix Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue.
Tracey and the band managed to tie-in at least one more nod to the 90s with Kayo appearing as a floating head in the style of Zordon from the Power Rangers, but with everything going on in the video we’re curious what we managed to miss…
Tour Dates:
06.14.19 – Halifax, NS @ Stickybuds LIVE at The Seahorse
06.27.19 – Calgary, AB @ HiFi Club
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