Boxed In – Jist
Boxed In – Jist (2016)
Directed by: Wayne McCauslin
Fresh off the back of a busy couple of days at Glastonbury, playing a series of shows across the weekend, Boxed In now share the video for their current single ‘Jist’, the first to be taken from their recently released sophomore album ‘Melt’, due out on September 23rd on Nettwerk. The video comes hand in hand with the announcement of a one off London show at Kamio on September 29th to celebrate the release of the record.
‘Jist’ marked the highly anticipated return of Boxed In, the brainchild of Oli Bayston –singer, songwriter, producer and frontman. Produced by Dan Carey and Oli himself, ‘Jist’ is a head-turning, expertly-produced cut of electronic pop, which keeps one foot firmly in Oli Bayston’s background – intricate piano lines, taut rhythms – but also digs deeper into the dance music influences tightly compacted within Boxed In.
The accompanying video has been directed by Wayne McCauslin and is a trippy kaleidoscopic tribute, which perfectly compliments the track. Wayne says, ‘’The music video for Jist came about initially when incorporating Oli’s liking for surrealist artists that we both admire, I drew a lot of inspiration from the likes of F.Bacon, Escher and Hitchcock whilst trying to keep things funky. Oli’s composition offered me a lot of visual ground for adding elements and glitches here and there, so the creative process felt very natural and it was fun to play with“.
Of the video, Oli says – “”I think Wayne has done an incredible job with the video. He’s managed to adopt my lyrical themes of paranoia and claustrophobia and actually make them fun! Quite an achievement. He’s also created a world I’d love to visit some time.”
