Kevin Bronson on April 8th, 2020

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“Losing my head, circling the drain / Stumbling, hating myself again,” Lexi Vega sings in “Slip Away,” her new single as Mini Trees. It’s a warm but wistful negotiation with herself — and familiar emotional territory for anyone suffocated by recurring feelings of inadequacy.

The song, the title track to Mini Trees’ forthcoming second EP, “is internal dialogue about struggling with self-acceptance,” the songwriter says, “and how, despite my best efforts to fill my life with distractions, the inevitable and unsettling feeling of self-loathing always finds its way back to the surface.”

Beating oneself up like that manifests itself in various ways, including the awkwardness of feeling lonely even in a crowd. That’s the direction that writer David Pollock and director John Rizkallah took in making the video for “Slip Away.” Vega is in a crowd yet fully disengaged.

“We tried to capture the sentiment of being surrounded by people and yet feeling alone,” Vega says, “but we wanted to lean more into quirky and lighthearted situations with the characters to strike a similar contrast that the song itself does by being melancholy lyrically, but bubbly and upbeat sonically.”

The song, as well as her EP, was produced by Jon Joseph.

||| Watch: The video for “Slip Away”

||| Previously: “Steady Me”