Video: Emma Charles, ‘Connecticut’

S.Lo on March 5th, 2020

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Emma Charles (Photo by Holy Smoke Photography)

Enduring biting cold, wet winters and temperate but equally wet summers, Northeasterners have developed a staid calm through storms. Freshly minted from Boston’s Berklee College of Music, 22-year-old singer-songwriter Emma Charles shares the plaintive, reflective title track for her debut EP, “Connecticut” (out now via Sky Records/Resilience Music Alliance) about leaving her hometown of Westport for more arid pastures, heading true West.

The video for the song — co-written with and produced by Doug Schadt (Maggie Rogers, SHAED, Ashe) and mastered by Alan Silverman — features vintage home movies from her early formative years, a retrospective look as she contemplates the wide world ahead. “‘Connecticut’ is such a personal song for me so it was important that the video represented this visually,” she shares. “As this is my first EP release, I wanted to present myself in the most honest and true form possible. So what better way than to dig out old family videos and take the audience on my personal journey of growing up in Connecticut and then bringing them with me as I drive across the country and move to L.A.”

After a while, the past can become oppressive and, as directed by Marina Piche and edited by Deb Foster, the visuals begin to turn to the present and the road forward, with Charles singing through the vertigo of travel, “I live so fast that I forget there’s a way out of Connecticut.”

Get lost in nostalgia on the cusp of the aughts (yes, that was over 20 years ago) and find your way on the open highway with Emma Charles’ latest offering.

||| Watch: The video for “Connecticut”