The music video for Miriam Clancy’s “Cassowary” seems to embody the image of that solitary and scarce species of bird. Clancy can be seen running off into the dark and wallowing alone indoors and overlooking a city in the music video directed by the artist and JP Winger. The circular web of acoustic and electric guitar melodies with Clancy’s breathy and introspective vocals sketch the image of an insular world of a person reluctant to give up the private world of imagination and creativity to seek to expose one’s work to a world that will take it in and have opinions based on projection and interpretation that may not extend the same level of sensitivity and desire to connect genuinely. And you have to let go of that intimate creation and let it fly where it will and become what it will to other people. Maybe this song with its hushed and midnight ponderings aesthetic is about a specific relationship but it sounds like a commentary on the life of an artist with an audience and the delicate balance of inviting people in to one’s private vision and resonating with others and the judgments that may follow and the kinds of attention and creative dissection that makes you want to not risk that process again. And most people with any level of sensitivity probably feel these things even if it’s not about a creative work, but rather one’s ideas and feelings that aren’t perfectly crafted or manicured for public consumption at a time in our collective social history when many of our public interactions have become such. It’s a song with layers and its dream pop sound is one that renders its complexity immediately accessible. Watch the video for “Cassowary” on YouTube and follow Miriam Clancy at the links below. Clancy’s new album Black Heart released on February 3, 2023 on Bandcamp linked below as well.
Queen City Sounds and Art 
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