It’s Monday morning, and in the spirit of new beginnings Tara Nome Doyle has released the touching music video for her new single, “Caterpillar”. The visual, shot and directed by Oliver Mohr, is a melancholic whirlpool of humanities biggest fears. Beginning with a chorus from a momentous organ, the backing track quickly gives way to Doyle’s haunting vocals, which ring true to the emotions of someone in mourning. Flicking to visual scenes of an elderly woman slowly being sheathed in fabric as she sleeps, Doyle sings softly of ‘futures rotting’, with the visual depiction of human freedom slowly dying. The effort is both disturbing and thought-provoking, with the artist herself starring in the video as a cartoon-like figure, while a young girl is seen at the front of the shot trading her crayons and colouring books for an iPhone. Packed full of painful symbolism, the video comes to an assuring end, with its featuring characters finding comfort from the warmth of an early-morning sun — a chance to start over again.
Voicing his take on the visual, Oliver explains “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. 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.”
“Caterpillar” is taken from Tara’s highly anticipated second album, Værmin. It will be one of the artist’s biggest projects since she co-wrote a song with Fleabag’s Isobel Waller-Bridge for the Netflix feature film Munich – The Edge Of War, which made it’s debut three days ago. The album promises to tell a tragic love story throughout, in company with the angelic vocals and striking beats which preview in “Caterpillar”. Værmin will be released on the 28th of January, and we will be mentally preparing ourselves every day until then.
To watch the new music video, head below…