Albert Hammond, Jr. has shared a new video from his still-fresh solo EP AHJ. The clip above gives the Strokes guitarist’s warmly jangling single “St. Justice” a vivid narrative whose felt drama plays out in stark relief to Laurent Briet’s black-and-white treatment. Therein, Hammond meets a love interest played by model Nina de Raadt. Together, they paint a charming portrait of domesticity — eating, bathing, and listening to music together (cutely, she doesn’t seem to recognize the Strokes’ catalog when Hammond offers to throw a record on the turntable). But the man’s lyrics should clue us in as to the direction of the plot: “I got locked in myself and I don’t know what to do / There are dreams in my eyes that now don’t shine through.” After a pretty steamy scene in which we see a whole lot of Hammond, the two have a bitter falling out, and the entire mood shifts. “Is this it?” one might ask. Sadly, the answer seems to be, “Yes.”
Watch Albert Hammond Jr. Fall Out of Love in NSFW ‘St. Justice’ Video
