Someone shares new video for 'Empathy' ahead of her tour

Following the release last month of her debut album Shapeshifter, Someone (aka Dutch/British psych-pop musician and visual artist Tessa Rose Jackson) plays a series of UK en EU live dates next month, including a performance for The Great Escape’s First Fifty (online showcase).

She will be playing a Belgian show at Le Botanique on November 12. Information tickets via Someone’s website

Ahead of the live dates, Someone shares the new video for album track ‘Empathy’. It is a song indicative of Someone’s debut album Shapeshifter as a whole, which weaves suave, cinematic psych-pop with an intimate, acoustic song writing style inspired by the likes of Joni Mitchell, befitting of the album’s introspective themes of isolation, escapism, and mental health.

Someone describes ‘Empathy’ as “A track about feeling disconnected with the world around you.” A darker psych-pop song inspired initially by American politics (namely the horrors of Trump administration) but one which dispels its shadowy hues as the song climaxes, like the sonic equivalent of the sun shining through breaking clouds.

The video, created by Someone shows a statue-like figure who stands unchanging as the rest of the world is built up and broken down around it. It was inspired by the sculptures of Nicolas Party at Dijon’s Consortium Museum which appear as torsos rising from the floor in the middle of the room, as if they’ve been cemented to the ground. As Someone expands” I wanted the statue-like figure in the video to be buried in the ground. Like a tree, like part of the earth itself”.

Someone’s album Shapeshifter is out now via Tiny Tiger Records (Warner/ADA), it received attention from the likes of BBC 6 Music’s Lauren Laverne (Recommends), whilst the elegantly choregraphed video for the album’s first single ‘Strange World’, created by Someone and director David Spearing, won ‘Best Music Video’ at LA Film Awards.

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