Kevin Bronson on January 22nd, 2021

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Catching up with recent videos from Valley Boy, Possible Oceans and Coma Girls …

VALLEY BOY, “Sad Girl”

On the heels of last November’s single “Cigarette,” the duo of James Alan Ghaleb and Ian Meltzer return with “Sad Girl,” a mopey slog (the production gives it that feel, anyway) through the emotions of rejection. “This song began after receiving my second ‘we should never talk again’ text from someone I had started seeing,” Ghaleb says. The video, directed by Zach Johnston, ends with a different kind of sadness, the post-coital variety. It co-stars Brittany Amaradio, aka singer-songwriter Delacey. “Brittany (the inspiration of ‘Sad Girl’ and my now-fiancé) and I reenacted a version of one of our first dates gone wrong for the video,” Ghaleb says. “Our director, Zach Johnston, had the idea to create the device of the iPhone sextape as the vehicle through which we can watch the night unfold, and though it’s surely a piece that might make our parents/siblings uncomfortable to watch, it feels very honest to me.”

POSSIBLE OCEANS, “Blood in the Water”

Possible Oceans, now the solo project of Trevor O’Neill, returns with the first song since 2019’s “Falling Backwards.” The dark, swirling “Blood in the Water” is the first in a series of singles O’Neill has made with producer/drummer Jules de Gasperis (James Supercave, Low Hum, Carré), many of which were finished long-distance during the pandemic because de Gasperis shuttered his Highland Park studio and returned to his native France. Plans for more extravagant videos were scotched by the pandemic as well, so O’Neill himself cobbled together found footage for the “Blood in the Water” video.

COMA GIRLS, “Wedding Roses”

On the heels of the December release “Skywalker,” Coma Girls — aka Atlanta native Chris Spino — has released “Wedding Roses” and its video, directed by Shane McKenzie. It involved “running wild through two of L.A.’s most iconic graveyards and scaring the shit out of my quiet little neighborhood,” McKenzie says, adding: “Doing anything under COVID conditions isn’t easy — a lot of my original ideas weren’t safe or smart — but we found a way that worked and had a lot of fun. Avoided police, funerals, and setting Chris on fire. This video is like a postcard … the song is very nostalgic so I wanted the video to feel that way.” Coma Girls’ EP, “Skyboxer,” is out Jan. 29.