By Dina Louis

On July 7th 2020, the duo, more, released a second music video to their track, “God’s In The Details”. More is a rock band from Los Angeles who consist of artists Kane Richotte and Malcolm Mcrae. The style of their track includes mixed elements of rock and pop that create a melodic and dynamic sound. These two musicians are multi-instrumentalists who not only have serene vocals, but are also skilled songwriters. Upon the release of their single, “God’s In The Details”, more produced an original video for the song that displayed assorted videos from different periods of their lives. However, the duo have recently released a new video featuring model, actress, and producer Riley Keough. This video takes on the perspective of a girl (Riley) who is trying to keep in touch with the people she cares about. More displays the use of technology as an attempt to stay connected through the loneliness of quarantine. The band took an unconventional approach to their music video by using a vertical frame rather than the common horizontal frame. Because the entirety of the video is filmed to seem like a viewer witnessing Riley through her phone activity, the framing of the camera enhances the video and makes it more realistic. The opening begins with Riley attempting to facetime Richotte, who does not respond and eventually reveals to be indifferent towards her. Although there is a series of phone calls from her, Richotte is unresponsive and avoidant. Riley is also seen trying to reach her mother and Mcrae, but goes unanswered by her mother and carries a short conversation with Mcrae. Throughout the video, whenever everyone was ‘unavailable’ to her, Riley would try to keep herself together by writing notes, saying what she was grateful for. In the end, Riley reveals herself in a raw and vulnerable way. Because no one can see it in person, Riley sends a sullen picture of herself to Richotte with the phrase, “This is what you’ve done.”  More has used their music and visual production to display the isolated and empty feelings of continuing a relationship from a distance. They have excellently captured the emptiness of self quarantine.