Video Premiere: Sam the Living - "Everything Fades Away"

Edmonton’s Sam the Living (A.K.A Dylan Greenhough) released his latest single “Everything Fades Away” on March 29th, and today marks the release date of a music video for the song. Though he’s a veteran of the prairie music scene (he was a member of Archaics and Perpetuals), Sam the Living is Greenhough’s first proper solo effort, and “Everything Fades Away” serves as a tantalizing taste of good things to come under the new moniker.

The song is a slice of earnest 70’s influenced indie rock, all held together by Greenhough’s ethereal tenor singing voice. The somewhat ghostly quality of the recording shouldn’t be a surprise; the single was recorded late at night in a hundred-year-old church, and it gives the song a sense of space that can feel both warm and welcoming, but also accentuates the the loneliness at the center of the lyric. There isn’t much to say about the video; it follows the low-budget indie tradition of finding one fun shot and sticking with it, and while there isn’t a lot happening, it is oddly compelling to watch Greenhough being pulled around in the snow.

You can catch Sam the Living playing on June 9th at the Aviary in Edmonton with Sam Singer, and you can check out the new music video for “Everything Fades Away” below, or find it wherever you stream your music.