“It’s like watching a western on acid,” says Sam Falls of his video for “Singing Bridges” by Los Angeles psych-rock outfit EFG. “I don't know if you can see it in a heartening July 4th way! Undercutting ‘Manifest Destiny’ or American masculinity is not exactly patriotic, but the fact that we can actually do that in America now is great.” In this warped slice of Americana, our heroes’ faces dissolve into pixelated puddles and outlaws roam across a glowing Technicolor patchwork terrain cut from such classic movies as The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, How the West Was Won, and Hang 'Em High. “Those films always starred the same people—John Wayne or whoever—and the female lead and director are often the same too,” says the San Diego-born artist, photographer and filmmaker who has been twice named in Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list and exhibited at the Galerie Eva Presenhuber in Zurich, and the Hannah Hoffman Gallery in Los Angeles, where he lives. “You can easily edit and interchange them and have it still seem like one continuous film.” The process involved using Flash programs to meddle with iconic films that had been ‘deinterlaced’ from analog to digital. The track is the first official single from EFG’s current line up, which adds bassist Tom Biller to the duo of drummer Josh Garza and Imaad Wasif—a long-time friend of Falls—on vocals and guitar. “I love that combination of lo-res meets hi-res,” Wasif remarks. “There's equal parts grit, fuzz and clarity: it's a lucid dream.”—Frances Capell

Frances Capell writes for Yours Truly.