Pissed Jeans - Moving On

What this video is

Released January 8, 2024 as the lead single for Pissed Jeans' sixth album 'Half Divorced' (Sub Pop, March 1, 2024), 'Moving On' marked the Philadelphia band's first new music since 2017's 'Why Love Now' — a seven-year gap bridging pre- and post-pandemic underground punk culture. The video and single arrived at a moment of renewed critical interest in noise rock and post-hardcore, with the album thematically…

Why it matters

A landmark single in 2020s noise rock, 'Moving On' was praised by Stereogum as departing from the band's scuzzier roots toward something 'vast and anthemic.' Its video typifies a strain of 2020s underground punk music video production in which deliberate unglamorousness, deadpan humor, and…

The director

Los Angeles-based filmmaker working across comedy television, music videos, commercials, and documentary. Grew up outside Philadelphia. Started editing under Bob Odenkirk on IFC's 'The Birthday Boys'; edited for HBO, A24, Amazon, Fox, Comedy Central, and The…