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A Texas duo turns a dead-end office into a beach party, and it’s exactly the mood “Sunday Best” was built for.

Surfaces released the official music video for “Sunday Best” on July 10, 2019, dropping it through the band’s SurfacesMusicVEVO channel. The song had already been out since January as a promotional single off the duo’s second album, Where the Light Is, but the video gives the track its own visual punchline: a beige, joyless office where every day on the calendar reads “Sunday” until Forrest Frank and Colin Padalecki show up and change that.

• The video, produced by Stephen Bielecki with production design by Mike Benna, was released July 10, 2019, on SurfacesMusicVEVO.
• “Sunday Best” originally came out in January 2019 as a promotional single from Surfaces’ second studio album, Where the Light Is.
• Forrest Frank and Colin Padalecki, who formed Surfaces in College Station, Texas, in 2017, wrote and self-produced the track.

The Concept Behind the Video

The clip opens on a office straight out of a fluorescent-lit fever dream — cubicles, dead-eyed coworkers, a calendar where every square reads “Sunday” instead of an actual date. Frank and Padalecki arrive uninvited and start unloading barbecue trays, coolers, and an inflatable flamingo floatie until the whole floor looks like a beach party dropped through the ceiling. It’s a literal staging of the song’s core idea: the calendar doesn’t dictate the mood, the person does.

Once the Hawaiian shirts and pool gear come out, the video shifts into a full-on dance number, with the same employees who looked miserable ninety seconds earlier now leading a group routine between the desks. It’s a simple bit — office drudgery versus manufactured joy — but it’s shot and choreographed with enough energy to match a song built almost entirely around hooks and repetition.

The Song’s Origin and Its Real Meaning

“Sunday Best” runs on a lyric that sounds like it was written on a beach towel: “Feeling good, like I should / Went and took a walk around the neighborhood / Feeling blessed, never stressed / Got that sunshine on my Sunday best.” Fans have generally taken it at face value as a carefree pop single, and on the surface that’s exactly what it is.

Frank has pushed back on that reading somewhat, framing the lyrics as something he wrote while working through a genuinely hard stretch of his own life rather than skating through an easy one. That distinction matters for how the song lands — the optimism isn’t written as if bad days don’t happen, it’s written as the thing you choose to do about them.

The relentless positivity in “Sunday Best” was, by Frank’s own account, a decision made in the middle of some of his darkest stretches — not proof he’d never had one.

Surfaces’ Sound and Where This Fits

Surfaces built their whole identity around this exact tone — warm, hooky, low-stakes pop that leans on repetition and good-mood production rather than big vocal runs or dense arrangements. “Sunday Best” slots right into that lane alongside the rest of Where the Light Is, and the video’s Hawaiian-shirt, flamingo-floatie aesthetic is basically the band’s whole brand condensed into three minutes. It’s the same instinct that runs through a lot of feel-good pop acts covered in pieces like Musicians That Are Nothing Like They Seem — the cheeriest surface often sits on top of something a lot more complicated underneath.

Frank and Padalecki formed the group in College Station in 2017 and have stuck to a simple formula since: write and produce it themselves, keep the tempo up, keep the message simple. “Sunday Best” doesn’t deviate from that at all — it just gives the formula a workplace-comedy music video to go with it.

The video’s whole gag lands on one image — an inflatable flamingo floating past a row of cubicles — and that’s really the pitch of the song in a single frame: nobody’s actually on a beach, they just decided to act like it anyway.