LUCAS KURMIS "ESCAPE IN SOMEONE ELSE" MUSIC VIDEO

Just in time for Halloween, singer-songwriter and experimental indie darling Lucas Kurmis has dropped a video for his latest single, “Escape in Someone Else”. A notably big collaborative effort from Lucas, the video is composed of several surreal vignettes, composed by different indie musicians and artists in the Minneapolis scene, and all of which feature shadows. These include shadows peering through shuttered windows, shadows dancing together in a hallway, shadows being somehow filled with more darkness, and a particularly disturbing image of a shadow’s head being ripped apart. At times animated through stop motion, and at times live-action, the fragments presented in the video form an unsettling and effective whole, discarding traditional structure and substituting its own logic for the viewer to follow.
The same can be said of the song itself, which features Lucas’s low, pained vocals narrating a story of infidelity, accompanied by fingerpicked acoustic guitar and some beautifully eerie strings supplied by Jae Yates and Bozena Scheidal of My Mom’s Guitar and RiverRats, respectively. The song switches moods without warning multiple times throughout, with a particularly chaotic crescendo over the lyric “no one knows I cheated”, where the guitar playing suddenly becomes mangled and the strings detune over Lucas’s strained, sustained phrasing. It’s undeniably freaky. Many more surprises await viewers, so if you’re in the mood for some weird, experimental freak folk, don’t hesitate to check this video out.

“For the song, I'd like to preface this by saying I don't believe in my interpretation being "right" as the artist, so take my own thoughts about it with a grain of salt. The song to me is part of this album exploring differing relationships that mostly don't work out. This song is an exploration of someone who uses people as an escape, or maybe loses themself in other people, and how that doesn't really work, The video is sort of mirroring the lyrics in shadows, mostly of people, to sort of show like an unreality of this character and this world, with only shadows of people instead of the people themselves. However, the lyrics and video are both abstract enough to take what you want out of it.
I'd like to shout out everyone who helped on the video: Jacob Jones did mixing and recording, Bozena Scheidel played violin, Jae Yates played cello, Walt Smits did that cool opening stopmo, Eva Loise Cone Adderley did the shadow puppet stopmo in the middle, Lucas Rollo and Celeste Brainard came up with the dance during the solo, Josue Michel Savoie did video of cello, and Dan Demarco, Ian Bravender, Kory Verhaagh, and my parents helped in some way with the video. So I'm very thankful for all the help I got with this.” - Lucas Kurmis

Catch Lucas Kurmis an upcoming livestream tied to this release on November 7th at 8PM, Event Link

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Review by: Dan DeMarco, Writer @itsadmiralfox
Edited by: Andrew Perrizo, Owner @PlaylistTC