A little while back we reviewed Neon, the latest album from Boston-based folk musician Sam Moss, singing the praises of the collection of “mostly gentle songs… that are imbued with real feeling, rife with doubt and hope and longing.” The patient, meandering nature of the sound conjures a strong sense of imagery, each echoing guitar note so rooted into the folk tradition so as to evoke pictures of the sweeping American landscape.
Fittingly then, we’re very happy to share a video for the track ‘Snap’ that fulfils this dimension of the Sam Moss sound. Made by Emma Piper-Burket, a visual artist, filmmaker, and writer, the video was made at the Marble House Project, an artist colony in Vermont which she and Moss both attended. Shot on a Krasnogorsk-3—that’s an old Russian 16mm wind-up camera not an alien planet—the video comprises as a series of shots from the Vermont countryside, earthy tones which really bring out the warmth which runs through the track.
The result is what Moss describes as “a small, quiet document of our time there,” The video is reflective in more ways than one, with the wistful natural imagery interspersed with the mirrored world found on the surface of water. Indeed, this softened, indistinct version of life is perhaps the most apt for the Sam Moss sound—realism shot through the subtlest filters so that the result is slightly more diffuse and picturesque.
Neon is out now and you can get it from the Sam Moss Bandcamp page.