Pitchfork

With all these music videos using vintage footage lately, who needs to see plain old musicians anymore? When we posted this song from Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox's forthcoming Atlas Sound solo album last night, we focused on the strong current of sadness pulling the track's lovelorn narrator to his watery grave. It didn't take long for a fan with the handle of epb21 to post a video for "River Card", emphasizing the outer-space ambience of the arrangement over the heartsick drowning in Cox's words. These space-program clips of rockets launching and white-collared engineers making the impossible a historical reality provide for something nice to focus on as the chiming, exquisite arrangement washes over. Just watch out for those Martian canals, spaceman.