Kelley Stoltz - Ever Thought of Coming Back

What this video is

Released in early 2006 as the lead video from Kelley Stoltz's debut Sub Pop full-length Below the Branches, this video emerged during a fertile period for San Francisco's DIY indie underground. Stoltz had built his reputation as a home-recording multi-instrumentalist, recording all instruments himself and offsetting recording electricity through renewable energy — making Below the Branches the first record to carry…

Why it matters

Represents a pivotal moment in mid-2000s neo-psychedelic indie pop, when artists like Stoltz translated the Beach Boys/Beatles harmonic vocabulary through a lo-fi bedroom-recording lens, anticipating the wider chillwave and indie psych movements of the late 2000s. As a Sub Pop release, it also…