Set to release her second album, ‘Værmin’, this Friday, singer-songwriter Tara Nome Doyle has unveiled the video for her latest single ‘Caterpillar’.
The video matches the cinematic feel of the song, with intertwining stories reflecting its themes. The song itself is built of slow moving chords on an organ and frantic drums, bedding in a slightly unsettling feeling and leaving Doyle’s voice to do the heavy lifting in terms of melody. Through this relative simplicity, she creates a song that seems both grand and enclosed at the same time - like a butterfly still held in its cocoon, perhaps.
The video’s director, Oliver Mohr, says: ”It is the warm voice of seduction that tries to gently pull us into the abyss in Tara's 'Caterpillar'. All songs on the album are named after insects and deal with topics that are often neglected in society. In public as well as in private”.
“The ‘Caterpillar’ video tells of three characters in dangerous social addictions”, he adds. “Off-screen hands give things to the characters. Presumed gifts, which only reinforce the characters in their dependency. While we observe them in their situations, the space around the characters narrows in the course of the story to a gentle cocoon of loneliness. Together they dream of breaking free from their fate and flying away”.
Watch the video for ‘Caterpillar’ here: