Synopsis
Set at Hampton Beach, the video unfolds as a deliberately stripped-back performance piece rather than a conventional narrative. Vivienne Eastwood is filmed in a long take, with the beach environment providing the entire visual setting and the camera maintaining an uninterrupted sense of time and place. The result is a concise, atmosphere-first companion to the song: a location portrait built around continuity, natural surroundings, and the band's presence instead of rapid cutting, characters, or a scripted storyline.
Factoids & Trivia
- The official video was published on Vivienne Eastwood's YouTube channel on December 12, 2013.
- "Facelift" had already been released as a single on December 1, 2012, making the video a later visual extension of the song rather than a same-day release tie-in.
- The production was shot with a Red One digital cinema camera.
- Hampton Beach is listed as the video's location. In a later interview, the band also described the shoot as taking place in the Hamptons.
- The video's stated visual method is "Long Take," emphasizing continuous movement and atmosphere over conventional music-video editing.
- The clip arrived during the band's early guitar-oriented period. Vivienne Eastwood's singer later described moving away from electronic music and returning to distorted guitar and chorus-pedal textures around this phase.
- The band's "Facelift" track was singled out by Gigwise in 2015 for its shoegaze atmosphere while naming Vivienne Eastwood among promising New York acts.