With his new album Below, NYC-based songwriter Sean Dunnevant—a.k.a. Glom—aimed to shift his lyrical focus to present a fairly matter-of-fact portrait of his life via 10 riffy power-pop snapshots. “With the previous Glom records, I took a lot of time to make the lyrics veiled and mysterious,” he shared ahead of the record’s release early last month. “With this record, I didn’t want to do that anymore. I wanted the lyrics to mirror what was happening in real life.”
For his recent “Neighborhoods” session, we get a fairly literal snapshot of Dunnevant’s life in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn. Set up outside on a glum winter day, the songwriter gives an acoustic performance of the album tracks “Teeth” and “Glass” on acoustic guitar, backed only by a small drum kit. Meanwhile, the video’s B-roll captures all sorts of drama such as the NYPD flipping a car back on its wheels, plush figures in neighbors’ windows, and pigeons bathing in puddles as a razor blade floats past—you know, New York shit. Check it out below.
