Video Exclusive: Kristin Hersh's "Bright" - Stereo Embers Magazine Stereo Embers Magazine

SEM is excited to exclusively premiere the new clip for Kristin Hersh’s “Bright.”

Taken from her Wyatt At The Coyote Place album, the video was directed by Béatricé Sisul and filmed by Zoran Drakulic.

In his review of Wyatt At The Coyote Place SEM’s Dave Cantrell wrote of “Bright”: “…With a distant ghostly howl foregrounded by the resonant pick of an acoustic and, more curiously, a kind of crackling underfoot, “Bright” eventually evolves into one of those trademark Hershian pieces, half lacerating half empathetic, full of lurch and sway, establishing along the way that this most consummate of artists is still the most undistracted member of her class.”

Of the clip, Hersh says, “The Bright video was made by LA film editor, Béatricé Sisul, an amazingly focused artist. It’s very beautiful, textural and gutsy, which is really the only place to go with a song like that. This song could be too sad unless you reflected its anthemic nature visually and Béatricé knows to go for the sweet behind the harsh. ‘There’s no tomorrow’ is a tough refrain unless you hear its inherent hope. I am ill-suited to events where people want to hear what they’ve heard a thousand times before. I’m in a different world of songwriting and music-making. So I keep my head down and smile and try to stay focused on what I believe music can do: make ugly beautiful and never be pretty. Nature helps keep me focused on the real. Music can be incredible, crazy and gorgeous, too, but only if you know its potential to shake you down to your spine.”