“Originally the inspiration came from a story I heard about Ray Charles being a huge Corvette fan,” says Petecia Le Fawnhawk, co-director of the latest release from transatlantic supergroup, The Acid. “I was overcome with awe as I stood in front of a 1967 Stingray, thinking of how it would be to discover such a magnificent creation through touch and the wonder of being born blind. I shared my idea with Eliot [Lee Hazel] who immediately had an emotional connection as his father was blind.” Set amidst stark Californian Dumont Dunes that evoke the backdrop of Salvador Dalí’s "La Femme Nue Dans Le Desert," the new video conjures up an appropriately surreal universe. 

The tantalizing mysteries not only perfectly mirror the glacial detachment of the group's lead vocalist Ry X–who addresses the track’s titular subject as “a Mona Lisa ghost”–but the nature of the band itself, given that it was only this year that the group revealed their true identities (Team Supreme collaborator Steve Nalepa and Grammy-nominated British dance producer and DJ Adam Freeland make up the trio).

While Le Fawnhawk has made videos for bands such as Band of Skulls and Hazel's directing credits include the 11 thematically-connected shorts for Beck’s Morning Phase, "Ghost" is the first time the duo have collaborated on a project. “The women are representations of pure innocence and of the spirit in physical manifestation,” says Le Fawnhawk of the videos two white-eyed protagonists. “New beings discovering an alien world through touch, blindly searching as their creator and destroyer looks on in amusement.”

"Ghost" is taken from The Acid's 2014 debut album, Liminal, released on Infectious Music/Mute Records.