Blue Lupin – Queen City Sounds and Art

The aptly titled “Sleep On It” by Blue Lupin sounds in the beginning like waking up and sleepily taking a journey. The mists of synth melody, the spiderwebs of guitar glimmer, the understated percussion and Joanna Wolfe’s dulcet vocals ease through an impressionistic song that ramps slowly up to a more forceful conclusion like the sentiments of the vocals contemplating what’s ahead resolving into more defined emotional convictions. In the video Wolfe gets on a train and walks through a fog enshrouded city in what looks like the early morning, taking in the quietness of an urban landacape before the business day has begun and stepping forward into a brightening day. It’s a perfect pairing of image and sound and a solid launch of Blue Lupin’s debut EP Satellite People which released on March 17, 2023. Watch the video for “Sleep On It” on YouTube and follow Blue Lupin at the links below.

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Blue Lupin aka Joanna Wolfe employs gritty atmospherics in her song “Surface of the Sun” so that it’s dream-like reverie has an appropriate tinge of discomfort. In the video treatment directed by Joseph Daly we see Wolfe walking around a park at points but mostly pointing a camera at the camera filming her, an inversion of the kind of gaze and dynamic we usually see in a music video. And the song about a lover who no one in her life really meets or sees and who never brings her into their life and wanting to exit the relationship, or perhaps the charade of one is more accurate, is a succinct examination of perception and comprehension and how we apply and choose to apply that when we feel like we have a special connection with someone and how breaking things off can feel like an act of self-liberation rather than lingering heartache. The song cast in expansive, distorted dream pop certain feels like a celebration that overcomes initial feelings of self-disappointment because who wants to spend too much time mourning someone who merely wasted our time? Watch the video for “Surface of the Sun” on YouTube and follow Blue Lupin at the links below.