So in a lightning-rod moment, I realised that if I sacked off the film shoot and made an animated video myself, that would solve both problems. "I had a whole shoot planned where we were going to go up to a mountain and film with a drone and I was going to sculpt my own version of the statue,” explains Lenman, “but it just kept getting more and more complex, and on the other hand I was secretly bummed out that I hadn't done any animation work in a while, which I really enjoy. The single comes with a gorgeous animated video by the multidisciplinary artist himself, which utilises New York Times illustrator Michael Parkin’s beautiful album and EP artwork. So that's what ‘Crazy Horse’ is: they're gonna keep carving that statue after you're gone, and it's going to be beautiful." The whole point of The Atheist and now this EP is about accepting that your life is finite, that there probably isn't anything afterwards, and accepting that fact in a positive light.
"A lot of my songs are about death and how small we all are in the big scheme of things, but I don't think I've ever managed to make that concept sound happier than I have on ‘Crazy Horse’, and for me that's a big achievement. The EP serves as a companion release to his latest album The Atheist and is designed to fit inside the same album sleeve.Ĭommenting on the track, Lenman says: "’Crazy Horse’ is one of those songs that didn't really sound like me-in fact it sounds a lot more like my buddy Frank Turner -but then this whole project is about songs that don't really sound like me, so perhaps ‘Crazy Horse’ is the best example of that." The track is the latest to be taken from his forthcoming new EP, Iknowyouknowiknow, a surprise new collection of material set for release on 5th May 2023 via Big Scary Monsters.
Revered alt-rock songwriter Jamie Lenman is delighted to reveal a special animated video for his new single ‘Crazy Horse’, which is released on 29th March 2023.
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