Leland Sundries is the bluesy Americana project of Brooklyn singer/songwriter Nick Loss-Eaton. In the video for “Elegy,” a track from The Apothecary EP (L’Echiquier), Loss-Eaton’s deep, rich voice meanders in a conversational style in the same way the canoe he paddles floats among the lonely skeletons of old tugboats in Staten Island. The backwoods-y banjo plucking and jangly guitar sound like Travis if that band was from Mississippi. The video takes you on a tour of the surrounding city, woods and the parts of town that are rusted and neglected but are beautiful in their own way—much like the song itself.
