We just submitted “Embers” for the NPR Tiny Desk Contest 2020. As you’ll see, it’s not a typical video, nor is it about a typical topic.
We wrote this song about the California wildfires in the fall of 2019 and the resulting smoke and power outages that blanketed much of the state. "Embers" is our attempt to grapple with the strange realities - N95 masks, shuttered windows, evacuation zones - that those fires made commonplace almost overnight. Little did we know that life during the coronavirus pandemic would have such bizarre similarities to wildfire season.