Dear Time's Waste - Heavy/High

Claire Duncan's Dear Time's Waste has been the source of some of my favourite music in 2012, firstly on the discovery of some of the older material, then with the new album "Some Kind of Eden". Ms Duncan makes frequent use of 1980s post-punk references as well as some other less obvious ones, for example what I think might be The Blue Nile, in the intro for this song "Heavy/High". As a 1980's participant, it is almost as if that era's back-catalogue has been brought to life again in a range of refreshing mutant strains. "Some Kind of Eden" is a superb album and highly recommended. An album to listen to, it is not background music...unless you like feeling slightly off-centre. Veronica Crockford-Pound's video for "Fortune" from the album was a triumph, and I find it slightly frustrating that there hasn't been the viewership that this video deserves. Her video for "Heavy/High" is also very good, continuing with the use of slow-moving evolutions of a central motif, in this case the female body, upon which a range of images are projected that are indirectly linked to the lyrics of the song. The song itself, in the artist's words "is a highly melodramatic depiction of the distance between humans, the hollow structures we build in an effort to connect". You can buy "Some Kind of Eden" at the link below.

https://itunes.apple.com/nz/album/some-kind-of-eden/id554154192

There is a very good interview with Claire Duncan and Veronica Crockford-Pound at this link. http://www.yenmag.net/artery/dear-times-waste-video-premiere/




Dear Time's Waste || HEAVY/HIGH

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