[4] The video cuts back and forth between shots of Bejar, who's working in a darkroom and singing in the shadows, and residential areas in decay.

Director David Galloway explained in a press release that the video's tragic tone is meant to fit the album's overall vibe: Bejar sings a lot about cities and girls and injury, sometimes all at the same time.

The director, Shayne Ehman, described the process of making the video: We ended up just wandering around New York til 3am and the city seemed completely dead.

[9] Jayson Greene of Pitchfork gave the album a favorable review stating, "Poison Season retains the sumptuous melancholy of Kaputt, leavening it with the elegant swoon of Nelson Riddle-era Frank Sinatra.

There are string arrangements all over Poison Season, and they are gorgeously recorded: the orchestra on "Girl in a Sling" sounds like 180-gram vinyl even while in earbuds.

Streethawk hearkened back to glam-rock Bowie even if the resemblance was off, and the magic of Kaputt was partly that of a peculiar and gnomic figure like Bejar conjuring the jaded romanticism of Bryan Ferry.

On Poison Season, he visits a different section of his record collection, one that predates rock'n'roll, and he applies all the studied love and imagination to the endeavor we've come to expect from him."