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Portland band Eyelids has released the video for the song “The Accidental Falls”. The track appears on their new album in collaboration with poet Larry Beckett, 'The Accidental Falls,' out February 14, 2020 via Jealous Butcher Records. The video was illustrated by band members John Moen and animated by Chris Slusarenko.
 
"I’ve always loved John's surreally themed but realistic drawings so I wanted to crack his skull open and see if we could make them spill out somehow,” says Chris Slusarenko. The animated video is part Schoolhouse Rock, part Shel Silverstein, part glimmer of hope and part horror movie."
 
When acclaimed poet and former Tim Buckley collaborator Larry Beckett first offered Chris Slusarenko and John Moen of Eyelids to write new lyrics for their next record as well as giving them access to his words from the last four decades, the musicians weren’t sure Eyelids soaring brand of guitar driven rock would jibe with someone else's lyrics (including a song that was written with Buckley). “It was Larry’s trust in us that really caused us to think we should do it,” Moen says. “When someone like that is into your work to the degree they want to collaborate, it definitely feeds your confidence.”
 
On The Accidental Falls Portland, Oregon’s Eyelids, one of rock’s best-kept secrets, step firmly out from the considerable shadow cast by the band members’ second-to-none pedigrees earned from time spent in Guided By Voices, The Decemberists, Stephen Malkmus and Elliott Smith’s bands. Produced by REM iconoclast Peter Buck who also plays on the record with Tucker Martine (Decemberists, My Morning Jacket, Neko Case) and Heba Kadry (Deerhunter, Bjork) who mixed and mastered the record respectively.