Music Video Review: Von Holden loses it in “Sorry Kid”
Our slow descent into madness in New Castle rock band Von Holden’s music video for recent single “Sorry Kid” starts with three guys getting out of a smokey van in the middle of a suburban neighborhood. It’s a scene that anyone’s parents would warn them to steer clear of in their waking life. Things only grow more peculiar from there as this band rock-and-rolls into the looming apocalypse.
As the members of the band, Phil Young, Pete Romano, and Mark Stallard exit the van and directly into a basement you know something is up. Music instruments and eerie lighting illuminate their makeshift stage and they take their places, as the music strikes up a fever dream of masked individuals and cuts to a news report ensue.
“The sun goes down in exhaustion
The seas rise up in revolution
The air is stoked with antipathy
The ground is soaked with repulsion”
As the song continues on, the band enters into the televised news report with shots of them reporting and playing from the ocean and mountaintops. Lyrics about our planted and what we’ve down ramp up and the ocean turns into a tempest. Cities burn in the background as our anchorman-on-set loses his cool in the wake of the destruction. The lights go from cool colors to intense red and frightening shadows. The chaos builds and our masked bird friend returns to give us a guitar solo.
“The sun, The sky, The Earth, The ocean
Turn around and leave on someone
Else’s watch undo what’s been done
Sorry kid there are no refunds
Sorry ma the planets undone
Sorry kid there are no refunds”
The lyrics, musical performance, and music video directed and edited by Mike Edwards of production company Dreamhead TV create a perfect storm of foreshadowing of a likely future if humans continue the mistreatment of each other and the earth they inhabit. Stream Von Holden anywhere you listen to music and catch them live July 13 at Shady Grove Music Festival in Arden, Delaware, at Arden Gild Hall.
