Hologram‘s 2013 LP Forever, out now on Captured Tracks, was one of our favorite records of last year, and yesterday the Swedish post-punk four-piece delivered a dark and gorgeous video for “Lay Us Down“, the album’s stunning closer. Full of striking black and white imagery, the video opens with a startling series of shots, including what appears to be a computer generated solar eclipse, flowers blooming, a house on fire, snippets of text, etc., all set to a medieval sounding choral chant, before the video even breaks into “Lay Us Down”. By the time that happens, we’ve seemingly been around the universe and back thru the body’s exquisite viscera, only to find ourselves running thru an empty parking garage on some random evening, from who knows what. The images which follow are quite possibly inspired the William Bouguereau painting used for the album’s cover, as two men grapple in slow motion, pitting flesh versus bone, as Holograms’ “Lay Us Down” burns with it’s gothic and existential dread!
