January 25, 2019
Swedish artist Jonatan Leandoer Håstad is widely known as Yung Lean, founder of the hip-hop group Sad Boys, but he also creates a variety of experimental music under the alias jonatan leandoer127. On Friday, the world got another leandoer127 album, Nectar, as well as the music videos for "Wooden Girl" and "Off With Their Heads," both directed by Hanna Nilsson and Rasmus Svensson. The first clip is a macabre and moving stop-motion work led by puppets, while "Off With Their Heads" has leandoer127 donning a Marie Antoinette-style fit in a salon. Both songs mine the ranting and raving of post-punk's golden age for their respective sounds. Watch above, and listen to Nectar below.
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