Electronic Duo Haulm Ponder the Grief of a Collapsing Democracy In 'Call the Waves' New Video: Exclusive

"We wrote 'Call the Waves' the night of March 12, after the news that President Trump met with [Brazilian] President Bolsonaro, who was potentially COVID-19 positive,” JT says. “The idea that these two world leaders, who both downplayed the virus to the detriment of their people, could potentially become victims of it smacked of a kind of poetic justice.”

Directed by Zachary Sprague, the clip was shot at dawn under Route 35 in Austin, Texas. It, too, was inspired by President Trump’s mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic, and, JT explains, the “utter powerlessness we feel as citizens of a collapsing democracy.”