Synopsis

A loose, dreamlike party unfolds in a Baltimore basement as friends drift through the room, celebrate, dance, and gradually lose themselves in the atmosphere. The video favors impressionistic fragments over a conventional storyline, capturing faces, gestures, and moments of exhaustion in saturated colors and languid slow motion. As the night wears on, revelers slump across furniture and instruments, turning the basement gathering into a hazy portrait of youthful excess and disconnection.

Factoids & Trivia

• The video was filmed at a party in Alex Scally's Baltimore basement, giving it an intentionally homemade and intimate quality.

• Beach House announced in October 2006 that the video was being filmed with people from the duo's hometown of Baltimore.

• Its visual style is built around saturated colors, slow-motion photography, and deliberately blurred or lingering movements rather than a tightly edited performance format.

• The clip includes friends celebrating, along with partygoers appearing to fall asleep or pass out around the instruments, including shots of people slumped over keyboards.

• "Master of None" received two different music videos in 2007. The first appeared in January, while a second version was released in July in connection with the United Kingdom release of the band's debut album.

• The song was originally released on Beach House's self-titled debut album on October 3, 2006.