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Last year Indiana five-piece Murder By Death managed to score the fourth largest music-related Kickstarter of 2012, raising a tidy, if not quite Amanda Palmer-bothering, $187,047 – almost double their original target. Presumably they’ve pumped at least some of that cash into this charming animated short for ‘Lost River’, one of the best tracks from last year’s ‘Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon’ LP.

A beautifully-concocted if somewhat morbid tale of doomed romance, it sees two lost lovers eventually reunited…although unfortunately only after they’ve drowned. Love, eh? Features some fantastic textures and a bittersweet theme; much, in fact, like the song itself…