Sam Lynch Escapes Routine In Her New Music Video For “Good Year”
Vancouver singer-songwriter/folk artist Sam Lynch has spent the last few years rediscovering herself and her music. Following a solo trip to Europe in 2016, Lynch returned to Vancouver to begin writing her upcoming album.
While the details of the album are still to be announced, Lynch has shared her new single “Good Year” and its stunning (almost) one-take music video. The songwriter opens up about the tune, “I wrote ‘Good Year’ over a year ago, with a very particular person and experience in mind, but it has morphed to hold a bit of a different space in my life now. The song is about the loss, and hope, and how those two experiences are forever intertwined in a cyclical, repetitive dance”.
The song’s melancholic energy accentuates its inspiration, drawing out a feeling of hope with the chorus’ mantra of “it’ll be a good year”, before she returns to her reflective sadness for the verses. The rinse & repeat cycle of the song was the moving factor for the music video, Lynch shares, “…the director Lester Lyons-Hookham and myself discussed how we wanted the visual to capture that repetition— how you can interact with your environment in such a monotonous way, until some sort of major shift occurs and suddenly everything is changed”.
The combination of the song and the video make for a compelling release, showing Lynch’s potential as a household name in Canadian music. Her gentle vocal style is reminiscent of Phoebe Bridgers and Clairo, adding in swelling string arrangements and delicate piano chords to draw out the emotive capabilities of her voice and lyrics.
Watch the video below:
