Weyes Blood - A Given Thing

What this video is

Released in early 2024 as an unannounced visual supplement to the closing track of Weyes Blood's critically acclaimed 2022 album And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow (Sub Pop), this video arrived over a year after the album's debut with no promotional campaign. The spontaneous, apartment-based production — shot in Red Hook, Brooklyn — embodies a countercultural rejection of high-budget music video spectacle, instead…

Why it matters

Weyes Blood occupies a singular position in 2020s indie folk, synthesizing 1970s orchestral pop, cosmic Americana, and philosophical lyricism. 'A Given Thing,' as the album's closing meditation, distills the record's preoccupations with everlasting love and existential uncertainty. The video's…

The director

Joey Frank is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist, director, and producer. He earned his BA from Brown University in 2005. He is known for sculptural assemblages, painted and photographic collages, and sonic installations, as well as art writing and…