Beachwood Sparks - Forget The Song

What this video is

Released July 2012 alongside Beachwood Sparks' comeback album The Tarnished Gold (Sub Pop, June 26, 2012), the video documents the band's first live appearance after a nearly decade-long recording hiatus. Shot at the Huichica Music Festival in Sonoma wine country, it embodies the early-2010s indie folk movement's embrace of authentic, community-rooted aesthetics over high-budget production. The band's psych-country…

Why it matters

A primary document of the early-2010s Sub Pop Americana revival and California psych-country resurgence. Beachwood Sparks were early architects of a jangly SoCal psych-folk sound that gained mainstream traction a decade after their initial run, making this comeback video a key artifact of that…