Playful watercolor animations and unexpected florals emerge amid a cast of anonymous characters in the video for “Paralyze,” a krautrock-propelled track from Choir of Young Believers’ second album Rhine Gold. Known for orchestral, folk-pop arrangements and moody lyrics, the band rose to prominence following their debut 2008 release This Is for the White in Your Eyes, with tracks like “Hollow Talk” reaching the top of the Danish charts. Directed by Anders Malmberg, today’s film is the band’s first foray into music videos, and sees the hauntingly melancholic vocals of frontman Jannis Noya Makrigiannis paired with a narrative spin. Shot in a defunct slaughterhouse in Copenhagen’s trendy, nightlife-heavy meatpacking district, Makrigiannis and Malmberg—who enlisted illustrator Signe Lupnov for the film's graphic elements—chose to use the longest, most complex track from the album. “In the beginning, I really needed to tame the song because it’s so wild and unorthodox in its structure,” the filmmaker explains. “Once I tamed it—and maybe I never did—I could start creating the visual storyline, which was very much a search for timeless images, the painterly, the film as a sculptural idea and long, precise and transcendent shots.”