Tennessee native Dee Goodz, who was formerly on The Break, is gearing up to drop his debut album FFM. To prepare us, he releases a video for “Time Machine,” which finds him showing us a different side of his hometown. Here’s what he had to say about the visual direction:

"The visual is an expression from a dark period in my life, it was a time of loneliness and peril that I was experiencing just before getting the opportunity to come to NYC to create the FFM album. In the song I express lyrically how I escaped from out of that f*ed up mind state, and then what it felt like when I was able to navigate my way to a place of clarity. When I wrote that song, I didn't have a car at the time, so I didn't want to put a car in the video, ya know... I need all my visuals to be authentic to what they are supposed to portray."

Watch it above.

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