Loma - Relay Runner

What this video is

Released in January 2018 as a pre-album single for the self-titled Loma debut on Sub Pop Records, 'Relay Runner' occupies the intersection of indie folk, post-rock, and krautrock-influenced art music. The video's production mirrors the album's origin: recorded in a rural Texas house, with environmental sound (cicadas, wind, frogs) embedded into the music itself. The naturalistic desert visuals at Monahans Sandhills…

Why it matters

Loma's 'Relay Runner' video is a key document of the 2010s art-indie pastoral aesthetic — a genre mode blending krautrock rhythm structures, post-rock atmospherics, and folk-derived vocal intimacy, visualized here through austere desert realism. Its slow-cinema approach, minimal intervention, and…

The director

Emily Cross is a Texas-based musician and co-founder of Cross Record, the duo she formed with Dan Duszynski. She is also a co-founding member of the Sub Pop supergroup Loma. Allison Beondé is a collaborating visual director whose work on this video…