Ahead of his new LP Lucky Day Roadrunner, Eric Gabriel has shared a music video for the ruminative title track. Built around crunching guitars and a beautiful pedal steel performance, Gabriel examines the strange twists and turns our lives take, and how we often cast these chance moments as expressions of fate, luck, and fortune. The video features Gabriel performing at a skate park, playing piano as shredders show off some tricks around him.
“I think people often feel luckiest when something unlucky almost happens, but in the end nothing really happens at all,” Gabriel shares. “You almost get in an accident, but something stops it at the last moment. Lucky. So luck is often just a change of perspective. A lot of the songs on Lucky Day Roadrunner are about that meeting point between lucky and unlucky—small moments where nothing really changes at all and yet I left feeling very different.”
The album was produced by Philip Weinrobe and was recorded by Gabriel backed by a band that consists of Meg Duffy Adam Brisbin, Sean Mullins, and Dandy McDowell. Lucky Day Roadrunner is out May 1, and is available for pre-order here. Check out the video for the title track below.
