'An Overview on Phenomenal Nature' will be released February 19th.
Having recently released her second single, "Hard Drive", which was named a Pitchfork "Best New Track" and chosen by NPR's All Songs Considered Bob Boilen as his "Best Track of January", New York City artist and musician Cassandra Jenkins has now unveiled "Crosshairs", the newest song and video from her upcoming album, An Overview on Phenomenal Nature, out February 19th on Ba Da Bing Records. Fresh and impromptu, the one-shot video for "Crosshairs" was created by Jenkins just this past week using the wintry backdrop of New York City as her palette - capturing the fragile beauty and sense of isolation that many are feeling during these times. Watch and share video here, pre-order album here.
Jenkins states, "I wrote 'Crosshairs' in the before times - not thinking about isolation. Listening to the song now, it reads more literally; I've never craved human interaction in the way I have over the course of the past year, and my experience of time has completely shifted. I decided to shoot this video over the weekend because I want to capture the snowy cityscape of New York in February of 2021 and how my inner landscape feels in this moment - simultaneously miniscule and expansive." "I love talking to strangers, especially when there are no words exchanged," she continues. "We have the opportunity to step outside of ourselves when we engage with a stranger's gaze, in the same way that an artist like Cindy Sherman engages with a camera lens. And when we allow our identities to fall apart, we get closer to dissolving into something greater than ourselves."Listen to "Crosshairs" here:
Photo Credit: Wyndham Boylan-Garnett
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