Video

Dead End Pools

***9-21-2025

“New video Out Today! This is the second single from our upcoming album out on 11/28!!

Dead End Pools was written as a love song, a testament to the “endurance test” that is my musical partner Phil Wandscher and our relationship. I always say, we share the same heart.

There was a documentary airing on PBS one night, where they were talking about Pacific salmon spawning in “dead end pools”, before swimming up steam to die. I grabbed my guitar... At the time, Phil was living out of his van, and dare I say, I was holding onto my life and to our musical “apparatus”, for dear life. I think I may have written from the perspective of being dead already, because a part of me was at that time. It had/ has been a tough decade for us both.

I wanted to pay homage to the notion that you are what you leave behind. In this case a song. The struggles are just part of the eternal cacophony of existence.

The divine spark, the love, the friendship, always overcame the darkness and difficulties of those days and continues to nourish us. Despite ourselves, we were once again saved through song. Whatever that entity that lives inside music “is”, it found us, and led us back to each other and ourselves. 

The video was shot by our friend, musician Mike Antone, who lives and grew up in the mountains and rivers of North Bend, Washington. He brought us into his world of Rattlesnake Lake. A town had once thrived where we now frolic in this footage, that had been overcome by a massive flood at the turn of the last century, most of the building’s remnants submerged beneath the lake. But the mighty tree stumps remain, and seem so alive — ancient and magnificent wonders. I love how the video brings them back to life as they are witnessing us, while we search for each other among the ruins.” -Jesse Sykes

Particle Kid Teaser

***3-31-2024 Mike Antone spent Easter filming the band Particle Kid and special opening set by Milo Gonzolez & Micah Nelson at the Old Steeple in Ferndale, CA.

Mike spent time filming the infamous cemetery and grounds. As well as parts of the Redwood Forest & coastal ocean highways.

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