London-based singer-songwriter Douglas Dare is set to release his brand new album Aforger on 14th October and, having already shared first single ‘Doublethink,’ is now previewing another song from the LP. ‘Oh Father’ is a brooding, haunting track with some heart-breaking sentiments behind it. Dare himself says of the track: “’Oh Father’ is certainly the most personal song I’ve put out in to the world and the subject is a sensitive one, so I felt any visuals we created had to respect this. I wanted something that wouldn’t distract from the song itself; the lyrics are quite purposefully unambiguous and are direct, so we chose to do a single-shot that would intensify the song and not allow the viewer up for air. The audience will read what they will in to the video and, I hope too, the song; for me they are both honest.”
The single’s new video, directed by Jeremy Carne and Nikolas Kasinos, was shot in one continuous take in Berlin and is just as muted as the song itself. Carne and Kasinos said of the visuals: “Through movement we explore a dynamic of control between two bodies, an equilibrium which becomes unbalanced by separation but eventually returns to a state of symbiosis, symbolising an eternally recurring cycle. A metaphor for multifarious relationships structures. There is an unconscious pull towards the unknown, manifested by a mysterious figure which represents both another side of the self and abandon to an other. Opposing forces; a binary of interdependent bits. Although connected conflict exists within the duality, a struggle of attachment and acceptance.” Watch below.
Photo credit: Özge Cöne
