Lightning Bug shares a remarkable animated music video for their new single “Opus”, from their forthcoming album No Paradise. Entirely hand-drawn by Dane Hagen with color and backgrounds by Melanie Kleid, the video is based on a ghost story written by Audrey Kang. Once again, the band proves their distinctive ability to build a compelling universe with its own lore, dimension, and mystery.

Lightning Bug’s cinematic music makes a powerful score for Hagen’s very first animated piece—a beautifully rendered narrative about a young girl, a rocking horse, and a corpse-like hand.

Like a modern folk tale, “Opus” expresses our collective implication in the fate of the world. Kevin Copeland’s baritone guitar thunders and churns, Logan Miley’s synths contract and expand, and Dane Hagen’s drums drive relentlessly forward—all while Audrey Kang’s voice casts a chilling judgment about passivity in times of crisis.

Speaking about the track the band shares: “We imagined ‘Opus’ as a dystopian folk song written for a post-apocalyptic fantasy saga. Or maybe it’s for the saga we’re all living in, as every year our humanity resigns itself to a world turning faster towards destruction.”

Pre-order No Paradise, out May 2nd, HERE.

Stream “Opus” HERE.