Home » Music Video

Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton – Doctor Blind
(Jaron Albertin)

18 September 2006 8 Comments | written by: James

Emily Haines steps down from her Metric frontwoman duties for some solo adventuring on her latest project Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton. If any of you have happened to have seen Metric live, you know that Emily’s star is one just waiting to supernova. Commanding presence, high energy, short, short black dresses: the girl should be in pictures. The track “Doctor Blind” off the upcoming Knives Don’t Have Your Back reveals a more reserved, ethereal energy with tempered ivory melodies underscored by the synth pulse that has always signaled the Metric sound. The end result is a larger than life indie-ballad that harkens back to Fiona Apple at her finest. Check and mate.

With Metric, Emily has not been shy about being in front of the camera and she continues the extroversion with her first solo single. Director Jaron paints an eerily isolated picture of department store pharmaceutical shopping gone awry, touching on chemical dependence, threat, violence, and madness in a completely delicate and simple manner. His dynamic approach is reserved, following the model of the track itself, creating a beautiful marriage of sound and vision that will leave you satisfied and a bit unsettled.


Emily Haines – Doctor Blind by Jaron Albertin


Quicktime, via Adbeast

DOWNLOAD
Quicktime 7 (iPod compatible), via SRO

8 Comments »

  • Adriana said:

    why does this remind me of Walmart and the mutant zombies that lurk around the aisles?

    # 21 September 2006 at 3:23 pm
  • George said:

    I’m no physicists but if people act like dominos and falling but don’t hit anyone behind them how do they keep falling. Overall I think the video is a POS. Boring, long and uneventful. No one should care. Good job paying a Walmart to film because they need some more money.

    # 24 September 2006 at 10:54 am
  • Jessie said:

    Tho I don’t really like the song, I was a little surprised to see that you filmed it at a the good Canadian store “ZELLERS” as I work there and NOT Walmart.

    # 26 September 2006 at 6:56 am
  • Erika said:

    Dear George,
    Perhaps if she was rocking out in a warehouse you would be entertained? This video is beautiful, artistic and brave. It captures the essence of the song perfectly. And do a little research before you make sweeping and completely incorrect observations – this was NOT shot in a Walmart.
    Thanks.

    # 29 September 2006 at 2:56 pm
  • Adriana said:

    yikes, sorry for the walmart comment. I still enjoyed the video, and still go to walmart for the great deals… I just close my eyes.

    # 30 September 2006 at 2:17 am
  • George said:

    Sorry not Walmart. Walmart’s
    kid brother in

    Canada

    . Actually I saw her rocking out in a where
    house in a previous video     as was not entertained. Beautiful I will give you.
    Artistic and brave and wont even pretend to comprehend. As for the Walmart
    comment it wasn’t like I was that far off. I still have a problem with the
    people acting like dominos.

    # 10 October 2006 at 8:32 pm
  • Melinda said:

    Shit, I just had to watch the video so I could respond to all this comment drama. I liked the dominos, but the video as a whole was kinda boring. I never shop at Walmart or look-alike retail establishments. The one by my house smells like poop…no joke.

    # 12 October 2006 at 11:37 pm
  • Metric - Empty (Jaron Albertin) at Shots Ring Out said:

    [...] In this case, we find Metric teaming up with Jaron Albertin (that’s twice now for Haines/Albertin) to do battle against a house that wont stop tearing itself together. Opting for his stylistic slower, more graceful, yet eerie approach, Albertin keeps us on our toes by taking the reverse shots and garnishing them with some cleverly shot forward actions (ie, a clothes hanger moving upwards). The fun in this is figuring out which shots they are and how they might be accomplished. This also gives you an idea of how hard this probably was to shoot, or at least how complex of a design. [...]

    # 6 April 2007 at 11:42 am