videoSamantha Crain 'Oh Dear Louis' by Jarod Evans
The excellent Oklahoma singer-songwriter Samantha Crain - who has previously made videos with LAMAR+NIK - gets together with Jarod Evans to create an arresting burst of homemade horror for Oh Dear Louis, the first single from her new album You Had Me A Goodbye.With random lo-fi video effects and animation, and a knife-wielding Samantha coming on a psychopath on a bad acid trip, its a fond homage to '80s 'video nasty' horror. And quite a counter-intuitive approach, considering her music is folky, melodic and decidedly unscary. But it works.
David Knight - 27th Jan 2017