Loma - Don't Shy Away

What this video is

Released October 23, 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, 'Don't Shy Away' emerged as a deeply inward-looking work from a band that had nearly disbanded. The video's radical single-take structure — an entire song rendered without a single cut — reflects both the band's DIY ethos on Sub Pop and a broader 2020 indie-video trend toward intimate, resource-constrained but conceptually rigorous production.…

Why it matters

Represents the mature expression of 2010s-2020s indie folk / dream pop video aesthetics: band-directed, single-take, anti-commercial, concept-driven minimalism. The video exemplifies how Sub Pop-aligned artists leveraged radical formal restraint — one shot, no edits, low light — as artistic…

The director

Dan Duszynski is a Chicago-based musician, producer, recording engineer, and mixer operating under the Dandysounds studio banner. He is a founding member of the indie trio Loma alongside Emily Cross and Jonathan Meiburg, signed to Sub Pop Records. His…