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.
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