I chose this song not only because it's the most amazing song on Earth, but also because of the music video. The video has won many awards, including the Stuttgart International Festival for Animated Film and has been nominated for the 2012 MTV Music Video Awards for Best Art- Direction.
But enough of that. The directors of the video basically filmed only the heads of the band members, and then attached them to animated bodies, which is why their limbs look so all over the place. The make up for the guys was "Papua New Guinean" inspired and looks sort of tribal and aquatic. For the beautiful Nanna (lead singer) they used custom wigs, coloured feathers,vintage jewellery and seaweed (among other things) to create her amazing goddess- like look.
The album, My Head Is An Animal, has a very prominent theme of some kind of fantasy world filled with wolves, dragon flies, vast seas, sensitive suns and wild forests. It has a very natural and earthy feel, this might explain why children really love their songs- they have a very playful streak in their music.
This song, Little Talks, is an upbeat folk track with loud catchy horns and intense drums. A duet between a man (Ragnar "Raggi" Þórhallsson) and a woman (Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir) are common is their songs, but this song really brings out how well their voices fit together.
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