Watch: New videos from Sudan Archives, Father John Misty and Haunted Summer

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Sudan Archives (Photo by Ally Green)

Provocative viewing from Sudan Archives, Father John Misty, Haunted Summer and their respective visual collaborators: Watch three new music videos.

SUDAN ARCHIVES, “Home Maker”

Furniture shopping never looked so alluring as it does in director Jocelyn Anquetil’s video for Sudan Archives new single “Home Maker,” the first new original tune from the Cincinnati-bred enchantress since her 2019 full-length, “Athena.” With the song (and more, winkingly, in the video), the singer-songwriter-violinist makes a case that women should not have to choose between security and sexuality. “It took nesting — building a home, investing in partners that were worthy of my investment — to shake my anxiety and depression,” she says. “For me, homemaking is a service to mental health and coping with fear and isolation. This song is about the effort put into making a relationship work and giving love a place to live.”

FATHER JOHN MISTY, “Goodbye Mr. Blue”

Director Noel Paul’s video for Father John Misty’s “Goodbye Mr. Blue” is a mini-art house film shot last fall in and around Sofia, Bulgaria, with Iva Gocheva and Nikola Dodov starring. While the song memorializes a beloved pet, the scene-stealer in the video is the colorful European bee-eater spotted in the countryside near the end of the beautifully paced narrative. The follow-up to “Funny Girl” and “Q4,” the song is the latest from “Chloë and the Next 20th Century,” the new Father John Misty album arriving April 8 via Sub Pop. File this tune with Nilsson’s “Everybody’s Talking.”

HAUNTED SUMMER, “The Tree”

Director Jack Gibson (you might have heard his music as Tenlons Fort) puts the dream in dream-pop with his video for Haunted Summer’s “The Tree.” It’s the second single (following their Daniel Johnston cover) from the L.A. duo’s new album, “Whole,” out on June 21 via Rain Phoenix’s label, LaunchLeft. The duo — Bridgette Eliza Moody and John Seasons — says the song is “about a couple that used a tree to represent/mark their love on and remember,” thus immortalizing their deep connection. Jack Leahy stars in the video, full of soft tones, ghosted images and the suggestion that the ethereal lies somewhere deep in the woods. (Haunted Summer play tonight at the Desert 5 Spot.)