lit up

“The way that that tour felt, the way that it just kind of lit up my whole life, was such a through line of making this music,” she said.

Thousands of lightning strikes lit up the skies above Southern California over the past two days as the region prepares for the potential of more wet weather over the weekend.

The Hunter's Return is a vast canvas depicting a war zone, with toppled trees and craters lit up by a fiery sky, and with green military laser beams emerging from the smoke.

“But, like, it’s all lit up with fluorescent beams. These are just ideas. We’re living in the land of constructs, and that’s what this whole album is about — and that’s what all of our albums and all of the songs that we did get at. Like Neil Young says, it’s one song. Where is love, where is beauty? The true human spirit — where does that live? That’s something that we’ll be excavating our whole lives.”

Cinematographer Michael Bauman puts together a gorgeous, silhouetted shot of St. Carlos’ skateboarding scouts vaulting over rooftops in front of a building lit up to look like the American flag.