Cass McCombs – “Morning Star” Video

If you’ve watched enough skateboarding videos, you’ve probably come to expect certain things on the soundtrack, like bruising hardcore or breezy rap. So it’s a welcome juxtaposition to see skating footage set to “Morning Star,” a softly gorgeous new song from softly-gorgeous-song specialist Cass McCombs. The song’s video, from director Patrick O’Dell, cobbles together a whole lot of old skateboarding footage — some of it ancient, almost all of it gorgeous. If you pay enough attention to that corner of the world, you may see some familiar faces.