Following the momentous release of Charlotte Gainsbourg's now-universally acclaimed album Rest on November 17 on Because Music, the multi-hyphenate artist presents a self-directed music video for "Lying with You," out on YouTube and other platforms this Friday. Filmed in the late Serge Gainsbourg'shome, frenetically bounding between heirloom curios and unsettling objects, a child and adult self, "Lying with You" follows three other self-directed videos from the album; "Rest," "Deadly Valentine," and "Ring a Ring 'O Roses" all likewise drew uniquely on the album's pairing of the fragile weightlessness of childhood with the weights and wrenching losses of adulthood. Watch the video for "Lying with You" here: https://youtu.be/g7b6J63QHXM
Since the release of Rest, the album has received a flood of praise, with Pitchfork deeming it Best New Music and describing it as "at once scorchingly intimate and fantastically oversized. Gainsbourg...[leans] into her cinematic sensibilities, cushioning her pain with orchestral swells and dramatic synth. With [producer] SebastiAn, she's dreamt up a sonic palette that wouldn't feel out of place in a horror film." "Lying with You" is no exception, as it unfolds as an interchange between suffocating devastation and breathy celebration, with writhing synths forebodingly plunging the song into darker and darker territory, until a chorus counteracts with glimpses of light and rushes of air. The song's lyrics see Charlotte Gainsbourg reimaging the death of her father, portraying herself as a 19-year-old, finding and lying beside his body. Gainsbourg complicates the brutality of loss with ethereal, even sometimes lush, remembrance. She sings of the unceasing sound of the nailing of the coffin, but she also sings of "whispering in raptures.""Lying with You," and the singles preceding it, are excerpts from the film "Charlotte By Charlotte."More music video excerpts from the film will be released one by one in the coming months.
Watch "Rest" Video Here; Watch "Deadly Valentine" Video Here; Watch "Ring a Ring O' Roses" Video Here.
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