You & I Belong Official Music Video - You & I Belong Official Music Video

What this video is

Released in early 2012 as the lead single and video from Simone Felice's self-titled debut solo album, this video arrives at a defining moment in the early-2010s Americana revival. Felice — a founding member of The Felice Brothers and The Duke & The King — brought to his solo work the weight of multiple near-death experiences: a childhood brain aneurysm and subsequent emergency heart surgery in 2010. The resulting…

Why it matters

A key artifact of the early-2010s indie folk / Americana singer-songwriter revival, the video's low-budget, naturalistic aesthetic encapsulates the era's rejection of high-gloss pop production in favor of confessional intimacy. Simone Felice's trajectory — from The Felice Brothers through The Duke…