Kevin Bronson on August 20th, 2014

7

Even more heartrending that lovers separated by geography are lovers isolated by emotional distance. In the stylish video for singer-songwriter Tien’s new song “This Ain’t Home,” you get a sense of both. Directed by Belarusian filmmaker Vlad Akushevich, the surrealist video depicts the Maryland-bred artist deep in longing – a sentiment for which there is some literal truth. Tien, born Tien Nguyen to Vietnamese immigrants and reared in the U.S., spent substantial time in Brazil before coming to L.A., temporarily leaving his girlfriend behind in South America. The song “is about the realization that the familiarity of my surroundings no longer offers me solace – the only thing that truly comforts me now is being with the one I love,” he says. “I imagined going back to my childhood home in rural Maryland and hearing the birds by the creek in my backyard singing, telling me to go back to Brazil.” “This Ain’t home” appears on Tien’s debut EP “Invitation,” which comes out the first week of September.

||| Previously: “Peaceful Patient”