The music video for Sea Lemon’s new single “Cellar” (from the forthcoming EP Stop at Nothing due out August 25, 2023 via Luminelle Recordings) is probably going to be unsettling and creepy for some but anyone that’s been an aficionado of modern and classic horror say something in the better end of found footage and/or A24 for how that form of cinema can be so compelling and emotionally stimulating will appreciate the haunting minimalism of what is presumably the artist standing on a roof clad in a long white dress, arm-length, red gloves, under a light gray overcast sky with very little going on but the tension of expectation is sustained until the end. The lyrics enhance this unusual and spooky imagery with words about asking if someone wants to “see something that feels so wrong” and about the cellar being where she belongs, and being told she’s off. Then about wondering if someone would want to own a home with a public record of a killer’s association with the the place. And then the chorus of “So I say/sometimes I imitate/yesterday/thingsthat make me afraid.” But the music is so ethereal and gorgeously billowy and entrancingly melodic with textural distortion giving it an element of grit it’s almost a contrast with the subject matter overall giving one a sense of the absurd which is the appeal of a lot of horror and how some of the most horrifying films can be seen as super dark comedy given the right frame of mind not to mention the aforementioned ability of horror films to go beyond standard cinematic fare in provoking thought and feeling because it has to operate in transgressive ways with stories that cross outside of easy mainstream marketing with imagery that leaves a strong impression. There is a compelling beauty to the best and most transcendent of horror films and it is that strange alchemy at work in this Sea Lemon song and its attendant visual presentation shot and edited by songwriter Natalie Lew and Abe Poultridge. Lew and Poultridge tap precisely into what certain fans of music and dark cinema will find exactly to their liking. Masterful. Watch said video on YouTube and follow Sea Lemon aka Natalie Lew at the links provided.
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