Alex Homan traveled a cold meandering road along the Connecticut River between Vermont and New Hampshire and captured the way winter lay upon the land in the new video for his song "King's Daughters," an exquisite cascading guitar-and-voice contemplation of mortality and transcendence. The song reveals the soft inner warmth and starry bright points that lie at the heart of winter's darkness. Ever-recurrent war and destruction, the tragic manifestations of a futile striving that spans generations and looks only outward and never inward, are balanced in song against the joy of detachment and "the boundless resource of sitting still."
"King's Daughters" appears on Alex Homan's album Ark Angel II, out now on Sun Cru.