There’s a certain set of images evoked by the traditional country sounds of Tim Hill as heard on his 2019 debut album Payador, as well as its preceding 7-inch single “Paris, Texas”—the first official release on Allah-Las’ record label Calicos Discos. With Hill returning with his follow-up record Giant in February, the video for his latest dusty ballad “The Clock’s Never Wrong” is perfectly apt for a song that feels wrong to listen to outside of the wide-open spaces of rural America.
“We thought it would be fitting to shoot a ‘day in the life’ kinda thing,” Hill shares of the visual for the brief, banjo- and violin-laced single, which mostly depicts the songwriter looking comfortable in his country setting. “The ranch has been instrumental in getting back to a simpler and more rewarding way of navigating my place in the world. Scenes of horseshoes clanking on an anvil and dumping manure are the kinds of things I like to see and do nowadays. It wasn’t our intention at the beginning, but the shots through LA give a sense of a man not particularly fitting into his surroundings.”
The video was directed by Allah-Las Matt Correia, with whom Hill has worked extensively in the past within and outside of playing music (Hill was briefly a touring member of Allah-Las). “Tim and I tend to pick it up right where we last left it,” Correia adds of their collaboration. “A catch phrase from some old Western, a line from some broken ballad. We know each other by these familiar monologues, so when the cameras come out we both know what to do without saying much.”
Watch the video below, and pre-order Giant before it arrives February 10 here.
