SAATSUMA unveil the heartbreaking visuals for downbeat album centrepiece "Overflow"
Having released their Overflow album last year, Australian duo SAATSUMA have today dropped the touching, devastating visuals for the record's title track.
Memphis LK and Cesar Rodrigues are - with the likes of Kllo - at the forefront of an exciting wave of electronic music coming from Australia right now. "Overflow" is just one example of their trip hop-influenced, fatalistic electronic pop.
An eerie track created from glitching electronics and forebodingly buzzing synths is cut through with Memphis LK's beautiful, crystalline vocal, bringing into focus the fragility at the heart of the track.
"Overflow" is about "the sense of losing control, like you’re drowning and unable to see a way out," says Memphis. "The notion that often things can seem so unbelievably out of your control and impossible to manage, so our ultimate instinct in dealing with this is to retract and withdraw. A similar theme to isolate, in the sense that our reaction to and difficult situations causes us to close off as a defence mechanism, and we’re all too afraid to face up to our fears and deal with our problems. Our lives become empty and meaningless, but we feel safe this way.”
The stunning video captures the song's sentiment perfectly; youthful abandon is shattered by the various endings we encounter in life, reality comes crashing in at those moments you least expect it. Visually, and on record, SAATSUMA are becoming poignant documentarians of modern relationships.
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