We've been loving the singles from sadie's forthcoming album Better Angels. Today the hyperpop balladeer offers up another splendid tune to go along with "Arms Wide" and "Wash." The new album's title track is a warm and emotive electronic pop stunner with a video built from collaged-together online video clips by director Andrew Theodore Balasia. In a statement, sadie explains the song and its visuals:
This is the only song on the record that’s completely electronic, without an “acoustic” element––but to me it feels like its heart. I wrote it while I was experiencing a growing chasm between myself and someone I loved, and grappling with the realization that they had changed beyond recognition. It was also a time where I was feeling despair at the state of the world, and our increasing isolation from one another. Modern technology is a digital prison that removes us from the world, but sometimes I think it has the wonderful ability to create community and make you feel connected to people in far away places. So I loved the idea of the music video being a collage of internet clips…it feels both dystopian, strange, and beautiful all at once. Better Angels felt like a fitting album title. I think it asks us to consider hope––within ourselves and in each other.
Watch below.
Better Angels is out 5/8 via bloody knuckles.
