Video: Atta Boy, ‘Deep Sea Ladder’

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Atta Boy (Photo by Sarah Midkiff)

“I know this house is broken, you remind me all the time / But this house is mine,” Eden Brolin sings on “Deep Sea Ladder,” the new Atta Boy single that likens a dwelling’s woes — a shaky foundation, faulty roof, perilous location — to the narrator’s personal issues.

In real estate terms, we’re all fixers, it turns out.

The mellow meditation — along with recent singles “Spring Seventeen” and “Boys” — will appear on Atta Boy’s new album, “Crab Park,” out Oct. 21.

It’s the third album from the L.A. quartet of Brolin, Dashel Thompson, Freddy Reish (guitar) and Lewis Pullman, following 2020’s “Big Heart Manners.”

The video for “Deep Sea Ladder” is the work of artist and animator David Delafuente, using a method of hand-drawn rotoscopy on paper with pencil. “I wanted to create portraits of ‘Domestic Intimacy’ — images of beds, kitchens, windows and the figures that inhabit these interior spaces,” he says. “Throughout the song, there was the illustrative lyric ‘this house is mine,’ which for me became the viewpoint. It spoke about ownership over insecurities and doubts.”

||| Watch: The video for “Deep Sea Ladder”

||| Previously: “Spring Seventeen,” “Boys”