Steam: Sincere Gifts, ‘Ghost of America’

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Sincere Gifts

After debuting last year with the fanciful video for “David,” bicoastal indie duo Sincere Gifts return this week with their “state-of-the-union” song.

The headline? “The U.S. is super-fucked,” says the singing half of the duo, Nick Byron Campbell. “In ‘Ghost of America’ the listener is taken on a short musical tour through the decline.”

The L.A.-based Campbell and New Yorker Ben Wigler, once bandmates in the Brooklyn indie-rock band Arizona, have been collaborating long-distance. Since arriving in L.A. a few years ago, Campbell has done notable work in the band Wages, as a composer for film and TV, as a sound installation artist and as an experimentalist in the nature-inspired sound art project Left Vessel.

Sincere Gifts’ new single hew closer to traditional indie-rock — a brisk, upbeat number complete with handclaps to accentuate lyrics like “we’re all going to hell.” “The world is getting hotter / but we cannot be bothered / There nothing we can do / so let’s just grab what we can,” goes Campbell’s sad but merry commentary.

Consume the song here.

||| Stream: “Ghost of America”

||| Also: Watch the video here

||| Previously: “David”