Erin Shares New Video”Still”

Ethereal Australian singer-songwriter Erin presents her new single ‘Still’ with accompanying visuals. The unguarded offering begins with an encapsulating and nostalgic lullaby. With meditative words, “so it begins”, carried by her soprano range, she draws you into a soft dream. Lead by warm cinematic synths, a deep melodic bass line and off-kilter beats, the listener is thrust suddenly into a new realm of dark production layers, dancing on the outskirts of avant-garde.

Of the song, Erin says the polarising sound was a very organic process where the collaborators, Godriguez & Ken Allars, had total creative freedom. “I gave them a very fragile melody, with no expectation of likeness to anything else or intentional message to convey. Dave (Godriguez) & Ken are both artists that I have a beautiful connection to musically and I simply leave the music in their hands. It’s exciting to see what comes back and rewarding to hear each time that the three of us naturally fulfil a role that the song needs.”

Erin says that while she understands the lyrics speak to her listeners in the language of love, she was really just contemplating the word still, on stillness, and on how if we are not still sometimes, we miss what is in front of us. She believes the essence of her thoughts translate well as a love story, although the meaning runs much deeper for her.

The oxymoronic sound of her angelic voice met with the gothic-like production have produced a sound that is both salt of the earth, yet spiritual and mystic. Erin’s ‘Still’ forces the listener to ricochet between nightmare and dream, where dark has been married to light. These two strongly divergent themes of light and dark build to a stubborn dichotomy in which the audience is left unable to choose between the dark yet earthly pull, or the existential light. Beautifully, Erin’s song allows the listener to sit in both and just be still.

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