Of Monsters and Men have always understood that their music exists in a world of its own, and the animated short film for “The Block” and “Mouse Parade” makes that world visible in the most beautiful way possible. Directed by Honor Price, the stop-motion film is a tender, surreal journey through miniature sets and hand-made puppets, where humor and vulnerability sit comfortably alongside each other, small characters navigating big feelings inside a playful and fragile world.
The film arrives as a companion piece to ‘All Is Love and Pain in the Mouse Parade’, the band’s fourth studio album, a self-produced record with nuanced contributions from Josh Kaufman, known for his work with The National, Bob Weir, and Bonny Light Horseman, and longtime collaborator Bjarni Por Jensson. The album wraps listeners in hygge, that distinctly Icelandic sense of gentle, comforting warmth that lingers long after the music ends.
The short film captures that atmosphere completely. It feels less like a music video and more like a pocket-sized poem, intimate, offbeat, and deeply human, the perfect visual extension of a record steeped in quiet emotional depth and the effortless chemistry of old friends creating together.