Armand Hammer are back with a bonus track from their 2023 LP We Buy Diabetic Test Strips called “Doves.” The new cut features elusive songwriter Benjamin Booker and frequent collaborator Kenny Segal handling co-production. Alongside the single, the group has shared a short film for the song directed by Ryosuke Tanzawa, which captures the duo moving between a snowy New York and a selection of Tanzawa’s black-and-white photography archive.
Speaking about working with Armand Hammer on the visual and their intention with it, Tanzawa expressed: “Sage Elsseser, also known as Navy Blue, connected me with [billy] woods last year, and I was very much looking forward to doing a video for Armand Hammer (‘Tabula Rasa’ and ‘Stone Fruit’ are important tracks me) but I never expected something nine minutes long, with basically everything…it’s quiet and loud, intimate and vast, beautiful and ugly—all of those things in one.
“I was a bit intimidated by the scale of the track at first and asked woods to give me some time to think about whether I would be the right director for the project. When I went through my archive of black and white photos and started testing them out, laying them over the singing parts of the track, I felt like OK—this is going to work. So I called woods and told him I wanted to do it. It turns out we had more or less the same idea of where and how to film him and ELUCID. In the end, me and my producer Sean, with an arsenal of cameras from Super 8 to iPhone, shot it over the course of three days on a snowy January week.”
Check out the visual below.
