Zooey Celeste has shared a new video for “Restless Thoughts,” the track is off the artist’s debut album, Restless Thoughts, available via ATO Records. “Zooey wanted to move and dance in both the ‘Restless Thoughts’ and ‘Big Trouble’ videos, so first we created a movement language for ‘Restless Thoughts’ softly based on yoga and surfing, two of his daily practices,” says Camryn Eakes (Director/Choreographer/Writer). “We then reworked and adapted that choreography to fit ‘Big Trouble’. I wanted to make a video that reflected the desperation and harmony I hear in the song.” The video was also fittingly filmed during a spur-of-the-moment southern California rainstorm, completely by fortunate accident, and on the auspicious night of the Harvest Moon.

Tylre Wilcox (DP/Cinematographer/Colorist) expounds his vision on the video’s style and visceral aesthetic: “We designed ‘Restless Thoughts’ to display Zooey’s internal struggle and mental spiral and ‘Big Trouble’ to illustrate what led him to his breaking point. We used a wider aspect ratio of 16×9 for ‘Big Trouble’ and a narrower aspect ratio, 4×3, for ‘Restless Thoughts’ to make Zooey’s world feel smaller and more confined to him and his thoughts as we watch him go through his heartbreak-fueled mental breakdown. As for color grade, ‘Restless Thoughts’ had to live in a dark, gritty world. While ‘Big Trouble’ had to feel a bit more optimistic so we decided to go a bit brighter, warmer and richer in color.”

Restless Thoughts is the real-life manifestation of its creator’s alter ego — an astral shaman responsible for leading the newly departed into the great beyond. After dreaming up the character of Zooey Celeste in a feverishly written novel he refers to as “somewhere between Quentin Tarantino and the Bhagavad Gita,” Zooey began working to create this ideal soundtrack for nocturnal driving, an immediate conduit for lasting transcendence. Alongside Nick Hakim, Zooey enlisted a wide array of guest musicians to flesh out the sound of Restless Thoughts, including Jake Portrait, Tei Shi, and drummer Abe Rounds (Andrew Bird, Blake Mills, Devandra Banhart), with mastering by Heba Kadry (Ryuichi Sakamoto, Björk, Julianna Barwick).

Order Restless Thoughts by Zooey Celeste HERE