While watching the video for Portland band AU’s new single, “Ida Walked Away,” youmight pine for your sunglasses. Director Takafumi Tsuchiya’s eye-poppinglybright graphics travel back to the 80s with glittering cascades of patternedtriangles and clouds that shiver and shake to the pulsing walking-pace of thevideo’s faceless protagonist. A heavenly stroll across rainbow roads andrustling green leaves, the video is the perfect backdrop for the melismaticvocals of AU’s multi-instrumentalist frontman Luke Wyland and the group’stranscendental wall-of-sound arrangements. “Ida Walked Away” is taken from AU’s2009 EP Versions, available now from Aagoorecords.