Kevin Bronson on September 23rd, 2020

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Skylar Funk is mostly alone with his regrets — and a vehicle for conveying them, his piano — in the video for the Trapdoor Social single “All.” Oh, there’s somebody else present, physically at least, but she is a mere foil for the song’s weighty emotional outpouring.

The stylish video, directed by Orlystory, is exemplary of what can be accomplished in the pandemic era. And the song, produced by Curt Schneider and one in a long string of Trapdoor Social singles dating back to 2018, features the L.A. indie outfit’s frequent collaborators, the Hyde Park Brass Band.

“The song was written in Paris in 2018 after a particularly painful … let’s call it … personal/social experiment,” Funk says. “The lyrics are pretty open and honest, probably to a fault (my poor ex …).

“The video was a product of lockdown, shot this March, and with a dancer, because I felt that was part of the story — temptation, passion, this force that pulls.”

Trapdoor Social’s self-titled album came out back in 2016, and since then they’ve stuck to releasing singles. Is a full-length in the works? Funk says only that the band’s 2020 singles — “All,” along with “Whispers” and the cover song “Feeling Good” — are “part of a body of work that will be released in the coming months.”

||| Watch: The video for “All”

||| Previously: “Whispers,” “The Lie,” “Hold Me Down,” “Never Stop Listening,” “Sunshine,” Interview: Sunstock Solar Festival