Here's She Keeps Bees' Video for "Is What it Is" Featuring Sharon Van Etten

We're

big fans of Sharon Van Etten here on Noisey

, so of course we were stoked to learn she'd teamed up with Brooklyn's She Keeps Bees on for this lushly forlorn track "Is What it Is." Lifted from SKB's forthcoming LP

Eight Houses

(out on 9/16 via Future Gods Records), both the song and the video are spectral and a little strange. The director Keith Musil had this to say about the inspiration behind the accompanying moving images.

"The concept for this video was inspired by a story a good friend of mine told me. Apparently, he and his little brother where driving somewhere with their mother. His brother at the time was around 3 years old; my friend a couple years older. For no particular reason his brother decided to unstrap himself from his child seat, quickly open the door and roll out of the moving car as if it was second nature.

"It all happened so fast that my friend had to alert his mother to his brothers sudden self-ejection.Their mother obviously freaked out, pulled over and retrieved her completely uninjured son who by no means was shook up by the accident. My buddy's crazy brother aside, this video is another interpretation of that classic story that reminds us of what is truly important in life even though we are all so weighed down by other things that should actually come secondary. So yeah, take notice when your kid decides to crawl out the car and dance on it's roof while traveling 70mph on a major LA freeway."

Words to live by.

She Keeps Bees Tour Dates

8/21 - Brooklyn, NY @ Cameo Gallery

8/24 - Chicago, IL @ Beat Kitchen

8/25 - Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St Entry

8/26 - Grand Forks, ND @ NDMOA

8/28 - Spokane, WA @ Jones Radiator

8/29 - Seattle, WA @ El Corazon

8/30 - Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre Lounge

9/3 - San Francisco, CA @ Brick & Mortar Music Hall

9/6 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Satellite

9/7 - San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar

9/8 - Phoenix, AZ @ The Rhythm Room

9/10 - Las Vegas, NV @ Beauty Bar

9/11 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court

9/12 - Denver, CO @ Marquis Theater

9/13 - Kansas City, MO @ Czar bar

9/14 - Lincoln, NE @ Duffy's Taver

9/15 - Des Moines, IA @ Vaudeville Mews

9/16 - Milwaukee, WI @ Club Garibaldi

9/17 - Detroit, MI @ PJ's Lager House

9/19 - Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Tavern

9/20 - Athens, OH @ The Union

9/25 - Cambridge, MA @ Middle East Upstairs

9/26 - Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie

9/27 - Washington, DC @ The Lot (Atlantic Plumbing)

At four or five years old Kim was left in a rolling vehicle after her mom forgot to put on the handbrake when she went to close the garage door. Oops. She survived and is on Twitter - @theKTB.

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