Pitchfork

Wide-open spaces suit the reverb-laden psych-folk of Seattle's Arthur & Yu, and the steady click-clack of a freight train is a fine metaphor for the unhurried rhythm of "Afterglow"-- probably the catchiest song from their debut album, In Camera. The new video for the song portrays both. Cutting between a variety of stationary camera angles, the clip only rarely lets us get a good look at its ostensible subject, the band performing the tambourine-jangling track underneath a blazingly blue sky. Just so, the layers of Lee Hazelwood-esque reverb make it likely you'll focus on the soft harmonies of Arthur & Yu's Grant Olsen and Sonya Westcott before you notice their words, though we're pretty sure "trains on the track" are in there somewhere. Guitars bounce on the offbeat as Olsen bends his syllables with dusty Western enunciation, for something like a slowed-down "Subterranean Homesick Blues"; "Let it go down slow," the duo sigh. On the side of the building is a cryptic message: "THINGS ARE LOOKING BETTER."

[from In Camera; out now on Hardly Art]