​Kyle Craft & Showboat Honey - Deathwish Blue

What this video is

Released June 19, 2019 via Sub Pop Records as a pre-album single for 'Showboat Honey' (July 12, 2019), 'Deathwish Blue' represents Kyle Craft's most personal songwriting — a love song written entirely by himself, evoking comparisons to John Lennon's romantic balladry. The video's Pulp Fiction-referencing bar-dance concept places it within a late-2010s indie rock tradition of visually nostalgic, low-budget intimate…

Why it matters

Represents the convergence of Sub Pop's Pacific Northwest indie legacy with a glam-rock/Americana revival aesthetic in the late 2010s. The video's intimate, near-static long-take approach and sepia color palette exemplify a broader trend of micro-budget indie videos that reject polish in favor of…

The director

Eleanor Petry is a music video director who directed the official video for Kyle Craft & Showboat Honey's 'Deathwish Blue' (2019), released on Sub Pop Records. The video premiered exclusively on Billboard on June 19, 2019. No further verified biographical…