Kevin Bronson on January 27th, 2022

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Today’s video roundup features the latest from Sophie Meiers, Goon and Night Shop. Feast your eyes and ears …

SOPHIE MEIERS, “Collar”

L.A.-based Colorado native Sophie Meiers’ lo-fi music dips into genres such as indie-pop, hip-hop and ’90s-styled alternative rock, boasting airy vocals that seem to curl in and out of the danger zone. “Collar” is the singer-songwriter and visual artist’s first single after signing to Epitaph Records. The follow-up to November’s alluring single “Mutt,” it was made with producer Luca Buccellati and features a hazy, gritty backdrop for Meiers’ almost-whispered confessional. “‘Collar’ is a song about intoxication, indulgence, wanting and euphoria,” the singer says. “I wanted to embody the feeling of your heart racing, and the lulling warmth in between. It is about words hanging in the air, unspoken and magnetic, filling space with blood orange light. it’s rare for me to write a song that feels so overwhelmingly happy and glowy.” Lindsey Nico Mann directed the video:

GOON, “Garden of Our Neighbor”

“Garden of Our Neighbor” (an acronym for GOON and the name under which the L.A. quartet played a secret show last summer) is the first new music from Kenny Becker and gang since their 2019 full-length, “Heaven Is Humming.” Goon is humming on a slightly different wavelength here — hazy, intimate and psychedelic as Becker goes for “a Sparklehorse vibe,” as he told Flood magazine, where the video premiered. “Up close, super dry, not double-tracked.” Becker directed the video, which was filmed by Josh Drew. And the song is the first from the new Goon EP, “Paint by Numbers, Vol. 1,” out Feb. 25.

NIGHT SHOP, “Let Me Let It Go”

The hits keep right on coming for singer-songwriter Justin Sullivan, whose new album as Night Shop, “Forever Night,” comes out Feb. 11 via Dangerbird Records. The follow-up to the title track, released last fall, and the November single “For a While,” “Let Me Let It Go” is an old-school rock ’n’ roll gallop (and hooray for Spencer Guerra’s horns). “This is a song about the freedom found in surrendering and starting over,” says Sullivan, whom directors Jeff Davenport and Cooper Kenward capture running through L.A. and up into the hills in the video. Nothing says freedom like finding a place with a view. (Night Shop celebrate their album release with a show Feb. 12 at Zebulon, supported by Anna St. Louis. Tickets.)