"Battle Lines" Music Video Feels Like Hanging Out in a Laser Tag Arcade

The "Battle Lines" video brings us back to the days spent at the laser tag arcade, spending time in dark corridors lit up by black lights. The video animation is a showreel of moving neon collages: fun and innovative graphics are cut with clips of colored drawings and sketches.

Filmmaker Robin Washburn and animator Emanuele Kabu came together to create the new music video for alternative rock group The Helio Sequence. Shapes fly across the screen in what looks like 80s inspired visuals in a wondrous wave of color synched with the song’s tasty bass line. Its like a mobile Matisse painting on speed or a modern interpretation of Aha’s "Take On Me." Washburn and Kabu remind us of the power music videos have to take a song one step further and enhance the experience of sound.

"Battle Lines" is out now on Seattle-based record label Sub Pop Records. Check out the music video below:

See more of Emmanuel Kabu's work on his website, and listen to The Helio Sequence here.

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