Light and Day Music Video - Light and Day Music Video

What this video is

Released in 2003 as the second single from The Polyphonic Spree's debut album 'The Beginning Stages of...', 'Light and Day' arrived during a pivotal moment in indie pop culture—when large-ensemble, communal aesthetics were challenging the dominant solo-star model of MTV. The band's signature white choir robes, designed to visually unify up to 25 members on stage, created a quasi-religious spectacle that invited…

Why it matters

A landmark artifact of early-2000s orchestral indie pop and choral symphonic rock. The Polyphonic Spree's 25-member ensemble—featuring choir, strings, brass, theremin, harp, and flute—represented a maximalist counterpoint to the lo-fi indie movement of the same period. The video codified the…

The director

Brand New School is an international production and design studio founded by Jonathan Notaro in Los Angeles in 2000. Dennis Go, who studied at Otis College of Art and Design, joined BNS at its founding alongside his brother Ben Go. Go co-directed the 'Light…