On this day, approximately 6 months or so since Eternity Mongers hit the streets, I want to share with you a stunning new video, made by my dear old friend Ian Roy, for the song When Heaven Dies and Comes to Me.
I’m very grateful to Ian for this amazing companion piece to one of my weirdest and proudest moments on the record.
Here is what Ian had to say about this mesmerizing work:
Sometimes I make music videos, but only ever for MF. I shot most of this footage (on my phone) while I was at NES Artist Residency in Iceland. I was thinking about making a video for MF’s new album, Eternity Mongers, while filming all these birds, but then I got busy with my book and put the video aside. In the fall, Forward Music hired me to write a bio for MF’s wonderful new album and I ended up listening to it about a hundred times while working on the bio—and then I started remembering all those birds flying around over my head. It started out as a video for another song, but then we landed on this one. Which is fitting because out of all the great songs and all the great lyrics on this album, there is not a line I connect with more than “Do you ever get tired of having fun?” That line is the reason why I wanted to make this a lyric video: so I could see it spelled out.