A wide shot of a dark, conical hill under a pale purple sky. Wisps of red and pink smoke drift across the peak and the surrounding arid landscape.

Neil Krug creates mystifying new Bonobo video using drones

Words: Lucy Bourton
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Date: 8 December 2016; News
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Art director Neil Krug has directed a hypnotic and scenic new video for Break Apart by Bonobo. The video is released in the run-up to the upcoming Bonobo album Migration out 13 January on Ninja Tune records.

Neil, who has previously created artwork for Lana Del Rey, Boards of Canada and Tame Impala, has captured a mystifying breadth of landscape using drones. The overhead footage is of desert locations that have inspired the new album’s imagery, which Neil has also created.

On the locations featured Simon Green, who goes by the pseudonym Bonobo, says: “Part of the writing process was to drive up to these places and live with tracks as I was making them. This was a new part of the world to me, where the landscape is quite alien and Martian.”

A dark, craggy rock face towers over a desolate landscape of grey stones and sparse, dry shrubs. The scene is cast in deep shadows with a cold, moody atmosphere. — Above
Neil Krug: Break Apart by Bonobo

A straight dirt road stretches toward a range of dark mountains under a moody, overcast sky. The surrounding landscape is a flat, arid plain covered in low, reddish-brown scrub. — Above
Neil Krug: Break Apart by Bonobo

A vast, dark red desert landscape under a deep blue twilight sky. Small, pale orange clusters of vegetation are scattered across the dusty ground toward a distant mountain range. — Above
Neil Krug: Break Apart by Bonobo

A dark, rocky volcanic landscape under a deep blue twilight sky. A plume of red and black smoke rises from the jagged terrain in the distance. — Above
Neil Krug: Break Apart by Bonobo

A vast landscape of dark, jagged volcanic rock under a pale blue sky. In the distance, a plume of dark smoke rises against a backdrop of rolling mountains. — Above
Neil Krug: Break Apart by Bonobo

A dark, rocky landscape illuminated by several glowing blue lights. One bright light in the foreground creates a sharp horizontal lens flare across the scene. — Above
Neil Krug: Break Apart by Bonobo

An aerial view of a dark, rugged landscape divided by a straight road. Patches of pale, frozen water or salt flats create organic shapes across the terrain. — Above
Neil Krug: Break Apart by Bonobo

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www.neilkrug.com
www.bonobomusic.com

About the Author

Lucy Bourton

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Lucy (she/her) was part of the It’s Nice That team from 2016–2025, first joining as a staff writer after graduating from Chelsea College of Art with a degree in Graphic Design Communication, eventually becoming a senior editor on our editorial team, and most recently at Insights, a research-driven department with It’s Nice That.

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