A man sits at home alone, like so many of us in 2020 and 2021. Clearly, he’s sinking into despair. Each winced facial crease deepens into isolation emblemization. Each murmur—about drowning in emotional eddies and dearths of helping hands—all curdle to melodious wails.
This is the profoundly simple, yet impassionately performed music video for Baltimore synth rockers Future Islands’ song “Thrill,” from their The soliloquous star: frontman Samuel T. Herring. He says those lyrics speak “to the sadness and frustration and fear that is bubbling up inside, something a lot of people are feeling, not only because of the pandemic but also because of the state of America.”
