Elvis Depressedly is not always the most outwardly happy bunch, at least lyrically. The effusively melancholic title track on last year’s New Alhambra, for example, boasts both references to Satan and tender couplets about emotional malaise: “Break these wild horses/ I have drifted through my life/ Cavities caving to numbness, I am never going to die.” But the North Carolina duo, Mat and Delaney, are unafraid to search for humor in that small-town death drive, which often results in what you could call unhappy rhapsodies—a concept that may sound like a contradiction, but totally make senses if you listen to their songs.

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With its candid nature scenes and shots of childhood revelry overlaid with written messages like "no more mercy left in heaven," the band’s new video for “Up In the Air,” is marked by a similar duality: disheartened by the passage of time, but nonetheless nostalgic for warm memories. As director Katherine McCollough explains to The FADER: