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Coldplay: Strawberry Swing features stop-motion animation and Chris Martin playing out a superhero fantasy.

Stop-motion animation seems daunting enough to do on its own, add the fact that this was done entirely with chalk and it’s a miracle that the video came out a year after the album instead of five years. It’s one of those videos you watch at least five times just to marvel at how they made it at all, despite how many times you’ve listened to “Strawberry Swing” in the past year.

The video was directed by the art collective Shynola, who previously directed awe-inspiring clips like Radiohead’s “Pyramid Song,” Stephen Malkmus’ “Jo Jo’s Jacket” and Beck’s “E-Pro,” which is similar visually and stylistically to “Strawberry Swing.” The video is also one of Shynola’s first since the death of one of their four members, Gideon Baws, who passed away on October 11th after contracting a virus, the Shynola site writes.