Besides “The Great Estates,” “Hannah” has always been my favorite Freelance Whales song. After seeing them numerous times this year (I think they were at two festivals I covered for BeatCrave this year), this band still affects me in a heartwarming kind of way. Maybe it’s because their vocals remind me of Avi. Perhaps it’s their electronic elements which make me pine for The Postal Service days. (I still think Freelance Whales are a musical lovechild of those two bands even though no one seems to agree with me!)
Whatever it is, I still enjoy their album to this day and even though they released the video for “Hannah” back in September, I’m going to share it on here right… now. When you repeatedly run into the same bands at the same places for big festivities, it’s kind of hard not to nod or smile at each other as you pass each other. My photographer randomly once asked lead vocalist, Judah Dadone, what the song was about and all the info we got back in May was something about a little girl in his apartment complex. Since I figured the song would become a single of theirs at one point or another, I began to think about how they would do this video.
Now, we all know. Well, what the video came to be like, at least. Directed by Issac Ravishankara and Ariel Danziger (with the latter having also directed Passion Pit‘s “The Reeling”), the video stays pretty close to the lyrics and we see a girl and eventually the boy, too, with some oddly deformed faces. Check it out below if you haven’t seen it yet and take a listen to their latest single, “Enzymes” (released via Green Label Sound) below.
Video: Freelance Whales – Hannah
WILD TONIC 