Morgan Delt - Some Sunsick Day

What this video is

Released September 14, 2016 as the lead video single from Morgan Delt's Phase Zero (Sub Pop, August 26, 2016), 'Some Sunsick Day' arrives at a moment of renewed critical interest in West Coast psychedelia filtered through lo-fi bedroom production. Delt, a Los Angeles-based musician who recorded the album entirely himself in his Topanga Canyon home studio, represents a strand of 2010s indie psych that treats 1960s…

Why it matters

A defining artifact of 2010s neo-psychedelia's visual vocabulary: the video demonstrates how algorithmic image tools (Deep Dream, neural distortion) were absorbed into indie psych aesthetics to create a distinctly post-internet version of 1960s hallucinatory visuals. Its slow editorial pace,…

The director

Lionel Williams, recording and performing as Vinyl Williams, is an LA-based multimedia artist and musician active since 2010. He attended the California Institute of the Arts and has released six studio albums including Lemniscate (2012), Into (2015), Brunei…