Next month we'll all get to hear Run, Run Pure Beauty, Luxembourg-based Jana Bahrich's latest album as Francis Of Delirium. She's already shared "Little Black Dress" and "It's A Beautiful Life," and today she's back with "Requiem For A Dying Day." The song's a mournful ballad that reminds me of Cat Power or the ballads on Radiohead's OK Computer. "Requiem for a dying day," she sings at the end. "Only time will make fools of us babe." It's got a stop-motion video by Bahrich, and she says it was inspired by the news of Katy Perry being blasted to the edge of space:
"Requiem for a Dying Day" began after reading about Katy Perry going to space and then developed into this pre-emptive mourning and grief for our future. I wanted the video to be done in claymation because the form itself is a celebration of process and slowness. All the work that has been put into it is blatantly on display, every thumbprint and every minor adjustment. We are hurtling towards our future without much pause or forethought. I wanted this video to be an attempt at the opposite, so I chose the most painstaking medium I could think of.
Watch below.
Run, Run Pure Beauty is out 5/29 on Dalliance. Pre-order it here.
