John Prine shared a delightfully surreal animated video for “Lonesome Friends of Science,” a track off the singer-songwriter’s 2018 album, The Tree of Forgiveness.
Illustrated by the Barcelona-based artist Tiago Majuelos and produced by the Spanish animation production company Bliss, the clip for “Lonesome Friends of Science” offers a visual representation of Prine’s vivid lyrics, which inject classic folk and country tropes into stories from way out in left-field. There’s the tale about Pluto losing its planetary status and “Hanging out in Hollywood/In some ol’ funky sushi bar,” while later Prine recounts a mythological love triangle between the Ancient Roman gods of Vulcan, Venus, and Mars.
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