Gillian Stone is a musician from Toronto.
A few weeks ago, Gillian dropped the music video for Bridges.
It is a soaring, powerful and angsty vocal that is like a mix of Black Mountain, PJ Harvey and Weyes Blood.
About the song and music video:
“Bridges” is the soundscape of recovery. Gillian wrote this song in 2009 after a summer of self-imposed turbulence.
Gillian doesn’t remember exactly when or how she wrote it, but it stayed with her and became predictive.
For over a decade, she returned to it as a space to safely express shame.
Now it’s morphing into a reminder, a call for self-temperance. She is still discovering what it meant
Director Emily Harrison calls the video for this song a psychedelic dream inspired by a French New Wave film. Soundscape was key to the creation of this track, which she produced with Michael Peter Olsen during a cold winter in his home studio, in Uncomfortable Silence.
“Bridges” follows a journey of dysregulated emotions exacerbated by alcohol abuse. The e-cello movement is meant to evoke the feeling of losing one’s mind. This is a post-rock night song that ends with a promise of the sun.
Bridges gets:
/10.
