Last fall, Paul Murphy announced a new album under his POSTDATA moniker, Twin Flames—a solo project of sorts, though one dependent upon the visual collaboration of video director Christopher Mills. The latest of these visuals arrives today for the track “Nobody Knows,” which matches the warm, upbeat acoustic tones heard on the title track, as well as those folk-oriented sounds expected of Murphy. The video matches this playful spirit, making the most of heavy COVID restrictions in his native Halifax.
“During the first lockdown, when I was gearing up for planning the video, my brother Michael and I were talking about performance videos and the general weirdness of them,” he shares, “but then about how it’d be kind of interesting to try one with all the COVID protocols in place knowing that there would be no shows in the near future, and if so that the show experience that we’re all accustomed to would not be the same for quite some time.
“So I think it started as a dystopic idea for how shows in the future would be,” he continues, “or something to that effect. Chris loved the idea and thought he could expand on it with different visual techniques. We made some dialogue for it. Planned out scenes. The only issue is that we couldn’t travel to actually be in the same room to do it. So then we just let Chris and his imagination take over.”
“Thank goodness for exercise periods during COVID,” director Mills adds. “I got to explore some abandoned parts of [Toronto] with this Monstro zoom lens, and imagine Paul, Mitch, and other cool folks shooting and playing different kinds of ‘social distancing shows’—in these spots with this ‘scrapbook’ style approach to this project. There were these little glitchy moments throughout the video, and it felt like a loving, Kintsugi-style approach to fill in these spots with the most important heroes on the planet right now—nurses and people in PPE. What a fun, loving, and nurturing project and song…”
Watch the video below, and expect Twin Flames out March 5.
