Kevin Bronson on January 24th, 2021

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Weekend viewing: Here are new videos from Hand Habits and the Deep West, each of whom have new EPs coming next month, and the last in a series of videos from Matt Costa’s “Yellow Coat” album.

HAND HABITS, “4th of July”

There was indeed a magnitude 6.4 earthquake that rattled Southern California last July 4, just like the song says. The new single from Meg Duffy’s Hand Habits is an aftershock. It’s the lead song on the forthcoming EP “Dirt,” out Feb. 19 on Saddle Creek and co-produced by Sasami Ashworth and Kyle Thomas (King Tuff). The video is directed by V Haddad, with cinematography by Adam Gundersheimer. “‘4th of July’ feels like trying again, rolling around in the wreckage of the past and finding new ways out of the maze of memory,” Duffy says. “For the video, I went to V and Adam and said I wanted to ‘just dig a hole’ and they turned that idea into a cinematic version of what it looks like to try and get to the bottom of a feeling.”

THE DEEP WEST, “Otherside”

On the heels of their first two singles, “Giving Up” and “Dominoes,” brothers Adam and Joey Chavez are back with “Otherside.” The Deep West’s debut EP “California Flowers” is out Feb. 5, and this latest installment finds the duo injecting some percussive energy into a song about internal restlessness. In the wacky video, Devin Caldarone portrays a dude whose mind is playing tricks on him, with the Chavez brothers making cameos as Jesus and the Devil, respectively. Just another day in quarantine?

MATT COSTA, “Sky Full of Tears”

The video is the finale of the series titled “Five Videos and a Yellow Coat,” a collaboration between Costa and visual artist Minh Pham on songs from Costa’s stellar 2020 album “Yellow Coat.” Explains Costa: “The five videos together address the concept of being sold an idea of what love is. In these videos, we tried to tap into a Rorschach of ideas to address that association with two dimensional objects then broken up and displaced. Within that we tried to evoke the sense of joy and wonder; love has limitless possibilities and means something completely different to everyone. Love can conjure a sense of loss and simultaneously a sense of hope. We tried to capture pure emotion by displacing these things like fragments of a feeling. And the memories of love like a collage arranged into shapes or grids as one tries to make sense of it all.” Watch them all in order: “Avenal,” “Jet Black Lake,” “Last Love Song,” “Slow” and, below, “Sky Full of Tears.”