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Exitmusic's Eerie New Video An Elegy To Lost Love

Following the dissolution of their marriage and band, Exitmusic's Aleksa Palladino and Devon Church unleash a gorgeous if haunting storm of images and sound.

The heart-rending melodrama at the core of Exitmusic's songs has always felt ripe for visual interpretation. That's especially true of this year's stirring swan-song album, , where Aleksa Palladino and Devon Church unleashed gorgeously stormy sounds that embodied the musical duo and one-time couple's tumultuous romance and, ultimately, disquieting despair as their relationship unwound. While neither member appear in

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