VIDEO PREMIERE // Wyatt Smith – Dream

Post by Misha

Jittering in fever dream technicolor, the video for Wyatt Smith’s ‘Dream’ injects an unsettledness into its easygoing opening chords. “I just want to live my dream,” Wyatt intones balefully, their eyes flickering disjointedly in sickly green, now grainy yellow and fuchsia. A pallor is cast over the wish, an uneasy foreshadowing of doom which is difficult to pin down in the sunny melody until Wyatt delivers the gut punch: “Killed myself in my dream. I just wanna be set free.”

Layers of sound and color dizzy up the meaning of the words, not unlike the muddled swirling around of thoughts that produced them in the first place. There is a pleasant numbness to the music which is mirrored in its visuals in the inverted emptiness where Wyatt’s eyes should be. This is a song about the irony of being full to the brim with the wish to be pure nothingness, and it is also a song about the inescapable need to continue being something, and to decide what that something is going to be.

Fuzzy guitar riffs suggest a happy ending, or perhaps not an ending at all, but just a warm fade into the next song, the next chapter. A new day, another band practice, some warm beers afterwards, smiles, dappled light, pinks and lavenders, the first hints of a change in tide and the stubborn belief in a tide that has the capacity to stay changed.

‘Dream‘ comes from Wyatt Smith‘s second full length album, Dead, out now. It is a gentle but disarming listen, with Wyatt writing most of their songs from the perspective of living with bipolar. You can buy it here via Citrus City. Listen to their previous album and EPs here. The arresting video for Dream was shot and directed by Sadie Spezzano.