My rating of a 6/10 for this music video is really the mean of two ratings: one for 'Light in the Tunnel', and the other for 'Human Race'. The first hundred seconds or so of the video was magic, the rest is a flop.
The watercolour-like aspects, Tom's turning his head to look in the distance, the train moving through the city to pick up early-morning passengers... it's beautiful. Even before seeing this video, I associated this song combo with early mornings.
For some reason, the creative team ran out of juice after that. Once the band takes to the stage, there's basically nothing else to the video.
It is also strange that Tom, Rob, and Jeff get most of the screen time, but Ken and Steve get almost none.
Aside from the abovementioned intro, I honestly get more enjoyment from just looking at the album cover while the music plays. Shame for such a good song that they couldn't have done something more creative for the rest of the video - recording the band members wandering through the hoodoos of the Red Deer River Valley at dawn, for example.
The watercolour-like aspects, Tom's turning his head to look in the distance, the train moving through the city to pick up early-morning passengers... it's beautiful. Even before seeing this video, I associated this song combo with early mornings.
For some reason, the creative team ran out of juice after that. Once the band takes to the stage, there's basically nothing else to the video.
It is also strange that Tom, Rob, and Jeff get most of the screen time, but Ken and Steve get almost none.
Aside from the abovementioned intro, I honestly get more enjoyment from just looking at the album cover while the music plays. Shame for such a good song that they couldn't have done something more creative for the rest of the video - recording the band members wandering through the hoodoos of the Red Deer River Valley at dawn, for example.
