{"id":1096,"date":"2012-11-21T23:36:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T23:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2012-11-22T00:45:03","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T00:45:03","slug":"the-mynabirds-body-of-work-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/1096\/the-mynabirds-body-of-work-video\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mynabirds &#8216;Body of Work&#8217; Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZKtdKLm5cbQ?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"539\" height=\"294\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1103\" title=\"The Mynabirds Body of Work Video\" src=\"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mynabirds-body-of-work-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"The Mynabirds Body of Work Video\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mynabirds-body-of-work-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mynabirds-body-of-work.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Following up their 2012 LP,\u00a0<em>Generals<\/em>, the Mynabirds &#8212; whose rousing set at our SXSW show was a personal highlight from the March event &#8212; have unveiled a new limited-edition 7&#8243; via Saddle Creek Records.<!--more--> The release features Laura Burhenn &amp; Co.&#8217;s buoyant, boot-stomping jam &#8220;Body of Work&#8221; on the A-side along with an unreleased cut culled from the\u00a0<em>Generals<\/em>\u00a0sessions\u00a0on the flip side, &#8220;In the Mouths of Wolves.&#8221; Can&#8217;t wait to dive into that new one, but for now, the Mynabirds just shared this surreal official clip for the title track. Director Allie Avital Tsypin helmed the visuals, which bring the tune&#8217;s empowering message to life through symbolic, colorful imagery and choreographed group dance moves to boot. Here&#8217;s Burhenn describing its impetus:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Body of Work\u2019 is a reminder of our absolute power to reimagine, redesign, and transform our lives at any given moment into something we enjoy to the utmost, something that\u2019s wholly and fully our own. We are not victims of the past, but artists who can shape it into the most brilliant form imaginable; we are living things, bodies of work to edit.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Check it out above, and pick up a copy of the 7&#8243;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/saddle-creek.com\/store\/553\" target=\"_blank\">this way<\/a>. Did we mention that the package&#8217;s jacket can be molded into an origami wild horse?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up their 2012 LP,\u00a0Generals, the Mynabirds &#8212; whose rousing set at our SXSW show was a personal highlight from the March event &#8212; have unveiled a new limited-edition 7&#8243; via Saddle Creek Records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1108,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions\/1108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}