The Confusions - Black Silhouettes [Official Music Video]

This is the music video of title track ”Black Silhouettes” from the double vinyl album with @The Confusions Official
Filmed on location in Skönsberg, Sundsvall, Sweden, in May 2021.
Video by Mike Fratello
Filmed on Harinezumi 2 camera (black & white mode) and Canon M-50
Music mastered by Daniel Mikaelsson, Nevo Mastering
Song out on Massproduktion, distributed by Playground Music, Music & Words (Benelux)

Link to song on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/track/6nZxrt...

Link to album on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/3lnpAI...

Black Silhouettes (lyrics)
You’re all alone with your books in the summertime
the window is always open
The words hits your heart with a cosmic power
you wish you could be dancing
Soon it will be dark
this is where you keep your heart

They say there’s a place for everyone you’ve heard it all before
You need to get this off your shoulders
You can taste the wind and feel all that is left
from the life before you got here
Soon it will be dark
this is where you keep your heart away

And so you fall
Like a black silhouette into the night
and you try and you try and you try and you try
and so you fall
Like a black silhouette into the night
and you try and you try and you try and you try

Waking up and the birds still singing the summer tune
the window is always open
The sun hits your face and it is all to much
maybe this is not your story
Soon it will be dark
this is where you keep your heart away

And so you fall
Like a black silhouette into the night
and you try and you try and you try and you try
and so you fall
Like a black silhouette into the night
and you fall and you fall and you fall and you fall

Into the night


”‘It feels like you’re falling into the story’
As the opening track, they wanted ‘Black Silhouettes’ to be particuarly story-driven: ‘I wanted that song to feel like a good short story, where you’re thrown into the situation,’ Mikael said. ‘I thought about this woman being alone reading a lot, the window is always open but she’s running away from something in her life. It feels like you’re falling into the story.’ It does, as evidenced by the way the song begins: ‘You’re all alone with your books in the summertime, the window is always open. The words hit your heart with a cosmic power, you wish you could be dancing. Soon it will be dark, this is where you keep your heart.’
The song was heavily influenced by American rock band, The War on Drugs, according to Mikael: ‘We wanted to have that straight drum beat that pushes the song forward, that’s how the song starts. We changed the key so that my voice would be higher. With the new bridge and the chorus, it fitted perfectly.’ I tell him that the song feels like a dream: ‘Oh, that’s good, that’s what we wanted it to be, happy yet still sad in a way. Zarah did the mellotrons in the chorus.’”

Interview with Mikael and Zarah about the ”Black Silhouettes” album and the history of the band:
https://inthebucketplaylist.com/inter...
/By Sara Seddon, In The Bucket Playlist


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