Kelley Stoltz - Ever Thought of Coming Back

FEB 07 2006 · 12:00

Kelley Stoltz - Ever Thought of Coming Back (2006) Era: Mid-2000s Indie Pop Renaissance (2006) - Sub Pop-era bedroom-psych revival, blending lo-fi home-recording ethos with sun-drenched vintage pop aesthetics at the height of San Francisco's underground scene High curatorial value as a primary document of the mid-2000s Sub Pop indie pop moment and San Francisco's DIY scene. The video's modest production aesthetic authentically embodies Stoltz's home-recording ethos, making it a representative artifact of a broader cultural tendency to treat budgetary constraint as aesthetic virtue. Useful for comparative studies of lo-fi video production alongside contemporaries such as Papercuts, Vetiver, and early Thee Oh Sees. Context: Released in early 2006 as the lead video from Kelley Stoltz's debut Sub Pop full-length Below the Branches, this video emerged during a fertile period for San Francisco's DIY indie underground. Stoltz had built his reputation as a home-recording multi-instrumentalist, recording all instruments himself and offsetting recording electricity through renewable energy, making Below the Branches the first record to carry the Green-e logo on-package. The song itself was explicitly conceived as a Beach Boys homage, with Stoltz noting the vocal harmonies pushed it into deliberate tribute territory. The video's warm, muted, fast-cut aesthetic mirrors the album's ethos: timeless pop instincts filtered through lo-fi, bedroom-studio limitations elevated to an art form. Director notes: The official music video was released on January 24, 2006 via Sub Pop Records, coinciding with the single release ahead of the full Below the Branches album drop on February 7, 2006. The video was later uploaded to the official Sub Pop YouTube channel. No production company, director, or crew credits have surfaced in any searchable archive.