The beauty of art is the way that meaning shifts in the eyes of the beholder.

To immerse oneself in Fond of Tigers's grand "Everything Moves" as a West Coaster is, for example, to see the work—sonically and visually—as a beautiful meditation on life in a part of the world where the rains never seem to stop. 

That reading probably has everything to do with the lumberjack standing in front of the chopped down mushroom, the snail making its way over a glistening bed of moss, and the fact that water seems to be everywhere.

But pretty soon, "Everything Moves" becomes something more than a seven-minute ode to the majestic forests of the Pacific Northwest.

As Fond of Tigers swings from grey-skies melancholy to postrock fury, tiny canoeists are dragged underwater, toy planes burn after having seemingly crashed to earth, and stationary figurines stand on the roofs of buildings swallowed up by swollen rivers. If you're terrorized by the 11 o'clock news on a nightly basis, get ready for your mind to start racing. 

Then again, it's possible that we're totally misreading the meaning of the cmyk productions-shot "Everything Moves".

Asked for a quick rundown of the video, band leader Stephen Lyons came back with the following: "cmyk productions is a Vancouver-based music video production company that seeks out ambitious projects and ideas. For Everything Moves they were quite enamoured with the idea of creating a world in miniature and finding an interesting way to create environments that played with paradoxes of scale and seriousness.

"The structure of the song gave cmyk freedom to treat the project a lot more like a short film than a traditional music video. The song has three movements, which helped frame the narrative arc. Eventually, the miniaturization serum wore off and the band was able to reintegrate with the big world, and its big world problems."

Feel free to weigh in with your own interpretation. If it's anything like ours, the message is that, if you can ride out the rough patches in this beautiful and endlessly mysterious world, everything just might end up being okay.