Eric Clapton has just released a rather trippy new music video for his single Spiral, which will be showing up on his upcoming album I Still Do that comes out May 20th. This will be the first album since 1977 that Clapton has done with producer Glyn Johns since 1977.
The video (which can be viewed below) has a rather 60's psychedelic feel to it and goes through an animated sequence of presenting images of Clapton at various points in his 50+ year career. It's kind of a nice way for the guitarist to give a nod to his background, from before he became an old man who wears khakis and straw hats.
As for the song itself, Sprial isn't anything flashy or out there, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's just Clapton laying down a nice groove with some tasty blues licks while also singing about how glad he is to still be doing what he is doing. Clapton's voice while aged still has that soulful edge to it that occasionally snaps down and bites in just the right way.
It would have been nice for Clapton to actually physically appear in the video in some way or another at some point, but I guess that would kind of take away from the artistic motif of the video. Plus, musicians from his generation don't seem to be too big on the idea of making music videos. Such things are a bit after their time and I can kind of understand to an extent.
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