As choppers whirred over Los Angeles in the wake of George Floyd’s murder in 2020, Ethan Buckner could feel the pulse of anger at injustice boiling over in the streets outside his window in Venice as he wrote Eyes on the Prize. The uprisings evoked age-old indignation, too familiar grief, and yet there was also a hopeful energy, that something had

As choppers whirred over Los Angeles in the wake of George Floyd’s murder in 2020, Ethan Buckner could feel the pulse of anger at injustice boiling over in the streets outside his window in Venice as he wrote Eyes on the Prize. The uprisings evoked age-old indignation, too familiar grief, and yet there was also a hopeful energy, that something had finally clicked, and change was within our collective grasp. Eyes on the Prize, with its lyrical homage to Alice Wine’s 1956 civil rights hymn, seeks to capture and amplify that revolutionary energy in an indie folk/pop anthem for our turbulent and consequential times.