Video premiere: Susy Sun, ‘Spinning Circles ’Round the Sun’

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Susy Sun (Photo by Megan Jorgenson)

The Super 8-filmed videos that Los Angeles Susy Sun has released to accompany her new singles are apt visualizations for her musical aesthetic: orchestrated folk and chamber-pop that seems to come from another time.

Sun, who released her debut album “The Way the Wind Blows” in 2019, crafts beautifully fragile songs whose air of innocence belies their strength and poise — diary entries that represent triumphs over whatever travails triggered them.

Classically trained on piano, Sun is preparing for the release of her sophomore album, “On Ivar Hill,” arriving this fall. Working with director Sam Stenson and visual artist Megan Jorgenson, she has made videos for the first four songs on the record — emotional vignettes set in her empty apartment between the 101 Freeway and Hollywood, around other L.A. locales and in the California countryside.

“Spinning Circles ’Round the Sun” (out Friday) is a lullaby of regret, penned “after getting into a fight with my partner, and as a form of asking for forgiveness,” she says. It was recorded to tape on a grand piano, with the string quartet parts added later. In the video, Sun becomes part of the landscapes — Jorgenson’s and nature’s — as the singer decides, too late, that “Words are not rocks to be thrown.”

It follows the singles “My Oh My,” “Sequoia Tree” and “Not Your Pawn” — the latter a good ol’ empowerment anthem with a barroom-esque piano and a surprising electric guitar solo. Compared to the plaintive hymn to nature “Sequoia Tree,” it’s evidence of the range Sun achieves “On Ivar Hill.”

||| Watch: The video for “Spinning Circles ’Round the Sun”

||| Also: Watch the videos for “Not Your Pawn,” “Sequoia Tree” and “My Oh My”