The Megan Holmes-directed video for Ida's "The Weight of the Straw" pieces together b&w film footage of small town spaces, empty fields, lone-lit windows, logging trucks, men on horses, and headlights, etc., in a landscape that's drenched rain, night, and loneliness. Mixed with the hushed song, it creates a stunningly understated series of vignettes. When we spoke with the band ...