New Video: Atlanta’s Kid Fears Shares Gorgeous and Meditative “How Long Are We Here”

Atlanta-based shoegazers Kid Fears — founding member Rose Ewing, along with Emma Shaw, Micheal Whelan and Ben Ewing — evolved out of Ewing’s solo songwriting project. Ewing recruited her bandmates to help her create a lush soundscape that draws from Low, My Bloody Valentine, Grouper, Midwife and Gia Margaret among others, and to play their first live shows in the Atlanta area back in 2021.

Kid Fears’ sophomore album Undying Love is slated for a June 28, 2023 release. The album’s material reportedly approach the elusive human truths that lie just outside the scope of understanding. Ewing’s lyrics are rooted in a moving honesty and gentleness, while weaving together everything from ineffable grief to quiet encounters with the sublime.

Undying Love‘s latest single, the slow-burning “How Long Are We Here” is built around swirling A Storm in Heaven-like guitar textures, Ewing’s achingly tender delivery describing the devastation of a sudden breakup — or a relationship on its last legs — with an unerringly precise psychological detail. Most of us have been here before, and because of that, it should fill you with the uneasy and painful memories of loss, confusion and uncertainty that always comes about as a result.

“This song was really fun to record. I feel like it really solidified our move into a distorted, shoegaze direction,” Kid Fears’ Rose Ewing says. “I remember I recorded the demo and Ben Ewing got home from work and listened and then immediately added the slide guitar and we were really excited and energized because it felt like we were stepping into a new territory. Then bringing it to the studio and having Ben Etter bring it into a high-fi zone was thrilling.”
 

Shot on what appears to be Super 8mm film, the video follows the Atlanta-based shoegazers while on the road, driving up and down Interstate 95 — but it captures the sense of boredom, excitement, hijinks and inside jokes within a band as they’re touring.