S.Lo on July 26th, 2019

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Smoke Season hits heartbreak out of the park in their latest Lynchian tulpa-morphing video for their new single “You.” Directed by MK McGehee and stylized colorfully by Kristin Condia, it features the duo (Gabby Bianco and Jason Rosen) as a couple confronting the dissolution of who they once were to each other. Bianco’s breathy harmonies and warm vocals become more insistent when thick, pulsing synths and chiming bells transition in, the downtempo song sinking further into the heart where the sadness must be faced and won’t let go as she sings, “Such a damn shame when lovers turn to soldiers / You still melt me like butter then crush me like boulders / Go… go now / When you’re holding the doorknob tighter than me I’m already without / You.”  

Produced by Bianco and Andrew Furze, mixed by Todd Bergman and mastered by Gentry Studer, it’s a devastating slice of electronic drama. “‘You’ is a song about heartbreak warping your perspective of the one you used to love. For the music video, we wanted to metaphorically capture the distortion of reality in a way that mimicked fading love… We wanted it to be so raw you could almost taste the heartbreak.”

Take a bite of “You” and chew slowly.

||| Watch: The video for “You”

||| Also: Stream “You”

||| Previously: “Up On Me,” “Hot Damn,” “Good Days,” live at the Echoplex, Chinatown Summer Nights, live at the El Rey, “Opaque,” “Badlands” (video), Ears Wide Open