Brandon Boyd, frontman of the now-on-hiatus rock band Incubus, launched a new solo musical side project this month called Sons of the Sea. Today, Mashable is world premiering the lyric video for the first single from Sons of the Sea's upcoming album, Compass.
Although Boyd has conceptualized music videos for Incubus in the past, the new tarot card-infused lyric video for "Where All The Songs Come From" (watch below) is his first attempt at shooting and editing one. He spliced the footage together using iMovie.
"I still don't know how to stream lyrics across the screen and my dilemma was I needed to have lyrics on the screen so I borrowed that trick from the old Bob Dylan video ["Subterranean Homesick Blues"] and sort of reworked it a little bit," Boyd admitted to Mashable. "I wanted to create a scenario where it looked like a quasi, mystical tarot card reader psychic table, and I borrowed my girlfriend's hands for the shoot."
Luckily for Boyd, his girlfriend knows how to read cards so the motions look realistic. Boyd "painstakingly" drew the lyrics on every tarot card to complete the video, but he needed some way to fill the instrumental break. He inserted cartoon footage of "cowboys and Indians," which has no meaning, he said, other than that he likes the genre.
Boyd announced this second solo effort on Twitter earlier this year.
Oh yeah! I finished my album, and the new book is dangerously close to being done. What a Spring/Summer it's going to be!— Brandon Boyd (@mybrandonboyd) March 3, 2013
Boyd describes Compass as reminiscent of The Beach Boys and Harry Nilsson as well as the sounds he created with Incubus, which formed in 1991 and became famous for such songs as "Drive," "Warning," "Pardon Me" and "Stellar."
The band is on "hiatus" after co-headlining a tour with Linkin Park in 2012. Boyd's first solo album, The Wild Trapeze, was released under his name, but this follow-up will be unleashed June 25 under the Sons of the Sea moniker.