{"id":33424,"date":"2020-10-21T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/?p=33424"},"modified":"2020-10-20T18:46:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T22:46:47","slug":"premiere-odette-dwell-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/premiere-odette-dwell-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Odette Announces Sophomore LP HERALD with Premiere of “Dwell” Video"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Australian R&B artist Odette<\/a> has a sound that’s as unique as her background. The 23-year-old, born to a South African mother and a British father who introduced her to punk rock, is simultaneously poppy and experimental, gentle and confrontational, catchy and political.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Odette is gearing up to release her second album, HERALD<\/em>, the follow-up to 2018’s To a Stranger<\/a><\/em>. The latest single off the album, “Dwell” \u2014 written in the studio with Pip Norman, Jantine Heij, and Nat Dunn \u2014 is a raw glimpse into the artist’s insecurities and emotional vulnerabilities. “Now I stand by the mirror and my fingers are shaking\/lights are flickering darkness\/please show me I’m changing,” she sings as her voice itself shakes with emotion before belting, “I’m getting high to hide the lows is what I do when I’m alone.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This song started as a wistful love song and ended up being a project that Pip and I took into the studio on our own to mess with,” she says. “It evolved into an absolute self-read, a reflection on my flaws and how I felt lost within them at that time.” She describes it as perhaps her most thoughtfully written song, and the only song she’s put on an album that took more than an afternoon to write. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Staccato instrumentals and pauses between verses spotlight Odette’s voice and give the song a sense of drama. “I wanted each section to be a vignette of different textures I associate with being overwhelmed,” she explains. “The verses are quite reserved, and then the bridge and chorus swell into these chaotic, sharp electronic sounds that remind me of not just the feeling of panic, but the urge associated with wanting to break free.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The video conveys a sense of shame as Odette hides her face behind various paper cutouts and frantically reaches her hands around as if she’s trying to claw her way out of her body. Other shots show her dancing around outside, “a dance that is intended to express self-directed rage,” she says. “The shots inside are very much about the feeling of splitting, shedding, and becoming something new, which is a beautiful, natural process, but also deeply painful.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n