Video premiere: Mines Falls, ‘In the Rain’

Kevin Bronson on May 29th, 2018

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Mines Falls’ debut album “Nepenthe” never moves faster than the speed limit on a residential street, but, oh, the view: New Hampshire-born, L.A.-based brothers Carson and Erik Lund and their value-added piano melodies, move across a landscape of melancholy, finding beauty in shades of gray.

The single “In the Rain” is exemplary, and so, too, is the striking black-and-white video for the song, directed by Carson Lund and unfolding on a wintry night outside an All-American home. It embodies the song’s themes of isolation and powerlessness, of desperately wanting to be included, only to be stuck on the outside looking in. But how much of that feeling is all in one’s head? Is it actually safer on the outside? And what happens if one were to walk toward the light? All these things you wonder as the gripping video trembles to a finish.

||| Watch: the video for “In the Rain”