“Brush Me Like a Horse” single artwork. (Mushroom Music/Virgin Music Group)
Alt-J frontman Joe Newman has released the video for his single “Brush Me Like a Horse,” released under his solo moniker, JJerome87.
The surreal clip finds an imprisoned man forced to run on a treadmill overhanging a cliff, lest he fall to his death.
“Brush Me Like a Horse is an acid western about a man condemned to die in a cruel, humiliating public spectacle,” says video director Alex Takács. “Joe Newman came to me with the vivid image of a state execution via treadmill, and it immediately conjured this whole narrative world.”
You can watch the “Brush Me Like a Horse” video on YouTube.
“Brush Me Like a Horse” is included on the debut JJerome87 album, The Canyon, which is available now exclusively via Newman’s website.
