Band of Horses released a video for their song ” Dilly ” on November 16, 2010. Previous videos for songs from Infinite Arms had been collections of still photographs by the band’s longtime collaborator Christoper Wilson, merged to make movies. “Dilly” was shot in the Mojave Desert by director Phil Andelman and was exclusively premiered on the movie website IMDb . The video features the exploits of a trouble-making motorcycle gang, and includes surreal sequences of the gang dancing in formation, as well as them killing people by shooting them with nothing more than a pointed finger. The collaboration with IMDb represents the first occasion that the website has premiered a music video. “Dilly” was released as a single on February 14, 2011, and includes the band’s cover version of Cee-Lo Green’s “Georgia”. The single was a minor hit on the Belgian (Flanders) singles chart. Infinite Arms was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Alternative Album category and featured in several end-of-year “Best Albums of 2010” lists, including Q magazine (No. 21), NPR Listeners (No. 15), Filter magazine (No. 10) and Paste magazine (No. 14). The song “Laredo” was placed at number 28 in Rolling Stone magazine’s top 50 songs of 2010.
released video for ‘Dilly’
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