Susie Suh’s new video for the song “Blood Moon” follows the Fall 2021 release of her album Invisible Love. The production on the song centers her expressive voice giving expression to a yearning for resolution and meaning in a time and in a world where so many things seem in constant flux. The video shows Suh walking the the edges of a volcanic crater in Hawaii with mist arising from the steam emanating from the crater. Suh holds a wind chime which is used in sound therapy tuned to the four elements and in the imagery we see earth, water, air and an implied fire coming together at a point where change is a constant and inevitable and often irresistible. Suh invokes this concept in her song and the ways in which we can learn to live in harmony with natural forces as a lesson for how we might approach forces of change in the human world even though those seem just as beyond anyone’s immediate control though more so than we can influence when a volcano will erupt or the cycle of solar flares and other natural phenomena. And yet you hear in Suh’s resonant voice and the flow of synth tones around her the admission that she doesn’t know everything about the situations or how to address them and that in doing so opening up to possible paths through them and productive ways of engaging not dissimilar to the humility humans should have toward nature and not assume that our constructs of ego and identity can overcome all obstacles through sheer energetic willpower. But these conceptual considerations of the song aside it is a gorgeously soaring work of deeply atmospheric and emotionally refined experimental pop that is moving in its sense of wonder and ache for resolution. Watch the video for “Blood Moon” on YouTube and follow Susie Suh at the links below.
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