Valley Maker
South Carolina’s Valley Maker (AKA Austin Crane) announces new album When the Day Leaves due 19th February via Frenchkiss Record and shares first single from the album No One Is Missing.
Along with the track comes a breathtaking video filmed in December in a South Carolina coastal marsh preserve, capturing the personal reflection that comes from isolation which so many of us can empathise with. Set to the transcendent folk soundtrack of No One Is Missing which finds Crane in ruminative voice with rich lyrical content.
On the track and accompanying video, Austin says: “The video for ‘No One Is Missing’ was filmed on Edisto Island in South Carolina's low country by dustoftheground. It's a lush, isolated place. The beach where we filmed is only accessible at low tide and is full of dead trees. I felt like that tidal flow, combined with the generally surreal and outside-of-time quality of the landscape, provided a spatial and visual connection with where ‘No One Is Missing’ is coming from as a song.
I wrote the track as a way of grappling with the partiality and temporality of how we connect with one another, I guess as an attempt to collect and reflect on recent experiences of loss, love, leaving, returning, missing, etc. On that theme, while recent months of social distancing have often felt isolating, I'm continually grateful for how music and the natural world can remind us we're not alone.”
