Chicago Indie Rock Group Sunjacket Share New Music Video For “More Lifelike”

After releasing their dazzling debut album Mantra back in 2016, Chicago-based indie rock group Sunjacket somewhat disappeared into the background before returning in 2021 with news of a sophomore album, More Lifelike. Released in June of that year, the band have shared the stunning new music video for the title track. Directed and design by motion designer Stefan Draht, the music video paints the relationship of sound and motion.

“This piece is a poetic look at life and nature seen through the eyes of a machine”, Draht shares. “It plays with the balance between fidelity and abstractness—detail and grandness.

There’s a meditative and reflective quality to “More Lifelike” that seems to resonate with a more tonal and subdued visual representation. Ultimately I wanted to capture a sense of the ebb and flow that the song has, as well as the underlying yearning in the voices. The machine longs to experience something more lifelike in the end“.

Adding to its inspiration, Sunjacket add:

“‘More Lifelike’ is a song about ritualistic binging and purging, about the almost spiritual longing instilled in us from birth to seek satisfaction in the lives we don’t yet have. Stefan’s video, which shares a conceptual kinship with the “Powers of Ten” video from the late 70s, complements the song by highlighting the relationally among all things while also placing those individual things’ insignificance into perspective.”

The moody black and white visuals are a stunning match for the dreary, textured experimental rock piece.

Check it out below: