COIN - You Are The Traffic

What this video is

Released September 18, 2020 during the peak of COVID-19 pandemic disruptions, 'You Are The Traffic' represents COIN's deliberate creative reinvention while stripped of touring infrastructure. The trio had been separately quarantined before driving cross-country to write together in West Virginia. The video's raw junkyard performance setting — consciously evoking the band's mental image of playing Reading & Leeds…

Why it matters

Occupies a pivotal moment in the COIN discography: the bridge between the polished indie-pop of *Dreamland* and a grittier, guitar-forward alt-rock mode. Critically noted by multiple outlets as channeling early-2000s rock influences, the track demonstrated that pandemic conditions could accelerate…