Watch: Julian Lynch “North Line”

03 Jul 2013 — Henry Schiller

Julian Lynch's Lines has been one of my favorite releases of this year so far, and the new video for album track "North Line" might summarize my feelings more succinctly than words ever could. In the video, we find dogs with their heads and paws draped out of car windows, panting gleefully in the wind. It's a simple, colloquial image, but one that director Richard Law presents with remarkable gravity. On the song "North Line," too, Lynch performs a slide guitar-based acoustic song as though it were a composition for a chamber orchestra. Neither Lynch, nor the dogs in the video, need words to telegraph exactly how they're feeling.

Lines is out via Underwater Peoples and is available for purchase on their website.