There are a handful of blogs that write about DC music, but only Hometown Sounds exhaustively covers all the music videos from any genre. We’re giving our last week of coverage in 2016 to our annual countdown of favorite DC music videos from the past year.
Will Copps and Brittany Jean Valint, together as Wall of Trophies, are greater than the sum of their parts. The tension between Valint’s warm and powerful vocals with Copps’s sinister production is best expressed on “Never/Always”, the second single from their debut full length album Heliograph. The song’s music video, shot and visually manipulated by the band in Amsterdam back in October 2014, is deceptively simple, reminiscent of The Chemical Brothers’s masterpiece “Star Guitar” by visionary director Michel Gondry. “Never/Always” is beautiful, mysterious and psychedelic, drawing viewers into the song and taking them on a meditative and hallucinatory journey looking out a car window at the city scrolling past.
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[…] this begins with a heavily filtered drive through DC, reminding us of their excellent earlier vid “Never/Always”. The deft, big production by Copps leaves Jean’s voice clear in the mix of the slow-groove […]
[…] duo Wall of Trophies have previously delivered some beautifully trippy visuals to accompany lush and layered songs. Their latest […]
[…] duo Wall of Trophies have previously delivered some beautifully trippy visuals to accompany lush and layered songs. Their latest […]