A month after announcing her debut album, the release date for Joy Downer’s Paper Moon is nearly here. After breaking the news with a funky first single, Downer is following that up with the considerably dreamier title track, pairing a slow, thumping beat with reverb-heavy guitar on the heavenly choruses, “Paper Moon” is another promising look at what the record has in store.
The song also arrives with a video, introducing Downer’s live show—which we hope to experience some time in the not-too-distant future—as the angelic counterpart to the more rock-and-roll impishness of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, with the singer donning a white, glittering onesie that recalls the outfits of Karen O. It’s a moody clip almost entirely composed of crossfades, featuring footage from onstage and off.
Watch the clip (directed, shot, and edited by John Knipp) below. Downer is donating 100 percent of her Bandcamp proceeds this Friday to Black Lives Matter—bookmark her page here.
