IRISH songwriter Sinead O’Brien is currently making finishing touches to her debut album – but until then, we’ve been gifted with this punchy new single ‘GIRLKIND’.
Signed to Chess Club Records, the new single was created alongside Dan Carey – the creative mastermind behind Speedy Wunderground – and it’s a very direct, urgent return.
Exploring the idea of femininity in society and how to navigate it, it’s a formidable track that is full of atmospheric twists and turns. Carried by her poetic turn of phrase, O’Brien is an increasingly compelling songwriter who is almost impossible to predict.
Accompanied by an eye-catching video, the director Saskia Dixie comments: “I wanted to create something that responded directly to the form and patterning of Sinead’s track. We have been fascinated with the shape of performative and neutral states of being for a long time and the film for ‘GIRLKIND’, I think, gets to the core of this idea. The passing of time is a reliable certainty that drives on regardless of what contrasting state you are currently embodying, so this became the base thread for the piece.”
“Simple domestic activities swell into loops that feel absurd and almost choreographic in parts of the work. Whilst action and consequence are mapped out visually, time becomes fragmented, as the action takes place in the neutral arena, and the result, a mark or stain, comes through into the performative sphere.”
Photo by Chloe Le Drezen
