The official music video for Brooks John Martin’s latest single “Millions” doesn’t just accompany the song. It expands on its restless, searching spirit and transforms it into something that is deeply personal.

Directed by Bobby Hanford and shot in the hills and hidden roads west of Malibu, as well as along the Pacific Coast Highway, the video mirrors the song’s themes of wanderlust, unease and blends the thrill of open-road freedom with the quiet tension of the unknown beyond.

There’s an improvisational energy to the way Hanford approached filming.

Keeping his eye out for people who fit the song’s ethos, he asked strangers on the spot if they’d like to be part of the video and captured vignettes of real, lived-in characters who seem like they belong to the landscape itself.

This spontaneity gives “Millions” an almost documentary-like feel, as if it were a found artifact from another time. Something between a travelogue and a lost piece of American folklore.

In Martin’s own words:

“The song is about hitting the road in the spirit of Jack Kerouac … I’ve always loved the adventure of travel but there is also an uneasiness when facing the unknown. The duality of having the time of my life while barely warding off a panic attack was the vibe I was shooting for.”

That tension is woven into every frame of the video. There’s a sun-drenched beauty to the California scenery, but also a quiet loneliness and an uncertainty that hangs in the air. Moments of joy, detachment, connection, and solitude all blurring together in a haze of golden light and rolling asphalt.

Martin’s self-titled album, from which “Millions” is taken, is the culmination of five years of songwriting. It’s a mix of storytelling and autobiography, where sadness serves as the root note but is lifted by forgiveness, hopefulness, and, at times an almost dreamlike sweetness.

That emotional complexity is realized in “Millions” where Martin captures something beautifully restless, a moment of fleeting clarity on a road that never truly ends.

Keep up to date with Brooks John Martin on his Website

Stream music on Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube Music.