Flock of Dimes - Price of Blue

What this video is

Released February 25, 2021 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic era, 'Price of Blue' arrived as a second single from Jenn Wasner's sophomore Flock of Dimes album 'Head of Roses' (Sub Pop, April 2, 2021). The video's extreme minimalism — zero saturation, near-total darkness, static framing, and intimate body-close-ups — reflects both the constrained production realities of the pandemic moment and a broader…

Why it matters

Anchors Flock of Dimes within the lineage of art-pop auteurs who collapse the boundary between director and subject. The video's monochrome minimalism and near-total absence of narrative arc place it in conversation with the visual language of mid-century experimental film and contemporary slow…

The director

Jenn Wasner is a singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist known as the solo artist Flock of Dimes and as co-founder of indie duo Wye Oak. Graham Tolbert is a collaborating director credited alongside Wasner on this video; both are confirmed…