Thundercloud Kid’s latest song “Well After Quiet Hours” begins with a jangling guitar line, intricately building layer after layer throughout its four minute run-time. We’re premiering the new video to accompany the single, and it features a solo dancer alone in a dense wood, dancing along to the slow burn of this folk-influenced pop track.

Thundercloud Kid releases songs that all take place within an imagined world. This world can be explored though their accompanying graphic novel, The Charmingly Odd and Oddly Charming Tales of the Thundercloud Kid. One universe of the novel is called Mo(u)rning Lake, which is where the action in the video for “Well After Quiet hours takes place.”

“‘Well After Quiet Hours’ is a paradox of a song, sonically,” said Sean Caputi. “The vocal melodies are bouncy and light, but the lyrics are dark and the instrumentation is pretty gloomy.  We wanted to capture the same phenomenon visually, and we think that we accomplished that through the use of the puppet character “Charlotte” from our books (Chapter One available here). Her dance appears graceful but sinister and feels enchanted, but haunted, just like the song is designed to.”

The project that’s become known as Thundercloud Kid was founded by Caputi in 2010. While the band began with pop-punk leanings, he decided to shift the focus of the band and bring on vocalist Dallas Greene and shift the focus towards the softer end of the spectrum. Today, the two round out the lineup of the folk rock project.