Video: Spring Summer, ‘Oh Brother’

Kevin Bronson on April 29th, 2021

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Spring Summer is the folk-rock project of L.A.-by-way-of-North Carolina singer-songwriter Jennifer Furches, who has played with the likes of Cass McCombs, Sea Wolf, Ben Lee and Patrick Park and is working on her new album with Jenny Lee Lindberg of Warpaint.

She’s also the newest signee to Dangerbird Records for its Microdose series, the two Spring Summer singles so far possessed with both a sonic and lyrical sweep.

The latest is “Oh Brother,” out today, a collaboration with her cousin Jason Schwartzman that includes production by Jarvis Taveniere from the band Woods. Furches tells Under the Radar, where the track premiered, that the song “could have only happened in this wild pandemic. I was stuck, feeling the self-inflicted pressure to use this time to create … but with nothing coming I started digging through old demos in the hopes something would strike a chord (pun intended) but what I found was a folder of Jason’s demos, given to me almost 15 years ago! I put a couple of them together, fleshed it out, and sent it to Jarvis to work his magic.”

The song arrives with a surreal stop-motion video directed by Furches’ husband, Roman Coppola, and animated by Sean Henry. (Schwartzman appears in the zombie band, too.)

The song is follow-up to “Bow Your Head,” for which Coppola directed a video as well.

Since 2010, when Furches released the first Spring Summer album (now virtually wiped from the interwebs, but take it from us, it was lovely), Furches has had three children and been busy working in the film industry. “One day my kids will be teenagers, adults,” Furches tells Atwood Magazine. “They’ll maybe come across some press release that sounds like I blame them for the decade my dreams were on hold. I hope they’ll know it has nothing to do with them. Ha – ‘It’s me, not you, kids!’”

||| Watch: The video for “Oh Brother”