SBTRKT: NEW DORP. NEW YORK. ft. Ezra Koenig

NEW DORP. NEW YORK. is the first release from masked British music producer SBTRKT's new album, Wonder Where We Land, and features Vampire Weekend frontman Ezra Koenig paying cryptic lyrical tribute to the Big Apple.

In the cool promo for the track, directed by PostPanic's Fons Schiedon, the artist's surreal creature is brought to life in a fully 3D animated world. Working with SBTRKT's close collaborator, A Hidden Place, to create the piece, Schiedon leads the viewer from the suburbs of New Dorp to the familiar landscape of New York, following the animal as it moves between shadows and lights surveying its urban domaine as it begins to realise what it is and about its place at the top of the food chain.

"SBTRKT is simply one of the most interesting artists I know of," says Schiedon. "I can try and fail to describe what it is about the music that is appealing and relevant to the video I made. But it really comes down to a feeling about something that, in the case of this track, exists somewhere in a odd parallel world.

The music brings up that type of imagery. And then the rest of the story is to try to get that feeling across through a medium that requires very concrete, technical and skillful actions. That might be another similarity to the way SBTRKT's work comes into existence.'