Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Home

What this video is

Released in January 2010 as the second single from Up from Below (2009), 'Home' emerged at the peak of the indie folk / New Americana wave that would define early 2010s popular music. The band — a large, communal Los Angeles-based collective — embodied a post-2008 cultural yearning for authenticity, rootedness, and escapism from urban modernity. The video's tour-diary aesthetic aligned perfectly with a broader…

Why it matters

A landmark text of the Stomp-and-Holler / New Americana subgenre, 'Home' and its accompanying video codified the visual grammar of the indie folk boom: communal imagery, warm analog tones, and the road-trip as spiritual metaphor. The video's low-budget documentary style influenced a generation of…

The director

Ryan Gall is a filmmaker and cinematographer credited as director, producer, and cinematographer on the official music video for 'Home' by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros (2010). He worked collaboratively with co-cinematographers Petey Klein, Stephen…