PREMIERE: Reb Fountain releases 'Heart' music video
Image: Kalvin Fountain-Best
New Zealand’s Reb Fountain released one of the most entrancing album’s last year with Reb Fountain, her first studio album in three years which recently won Fountain the prestigious Taite Music Award in her home country (previous winners of the award have included Lorde).
Tomorrow she releases her new single ‘Heart’, a beguiling, other-worldly alt-pop-folk track which explores unrequited love and love that both brings us together and tears us about. Ahead of the song’s general release today the video premieres on Women In Pop.
“I wanted to share a tune for all the unrequited love and longing; the great exodus of connection and the echoes of yearning left behind, reverberating through space, time and our hearts, as we fell together and apart,” Fountain says. “They say as long as Orpheus sings he breathes life into death; that, in the most challenging of times, we too have the opportunity for rebirth. Orpheus would play his u-shaped lyre; it’s two arms reaching away from one another to hold the tension of strings vibrating across the bridge between. ‘Heart’ is a love song; not a happily ever after kind of love, more the type of love that makes beautiful music precisely because it is forever connected and apart. Held by heart strings it is the kind of love that begged Orpheus to turn and share it with Eurydice only to lose her forever – the sort of love that’s human; where great suffering and great joy exist as one.”
The video for ‘Heart’ was directed by Lola Fountain-Best and explores “isolation and connection, desire and aversion and the beautiful stillness between.” Watch the video below right now exclusively on Women In Pop
‘Heart’ is released on Thursday 27 May. You can pre-order and pre-save here now.
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