Now this is great news today!
TOPS singer Jane Penny is going out on her own and dropped the music video for Messages.
The leading single is taken from Jane’s debut EP called Sufacing which comes out on April 5, 2024 via Luminelle Recordings.
A wonderful dreamy 80s synth-pop that is still on the veins of TOPS and loving the music video where you see familiar Montreal places.
About the track:
Jane Penny’s debut track is a delightfully paranoid pop song and a strong introduction to Penny’s own sonic world.
“It’s a pop song about getting notifications from everyone except the one person you want to hear from, which was happening to me at the time.
The opening sample – ‘there is a message for you’ is a strange message that the credit card machines in Montreal cabs make.”
The cinematic music video for “Messages” inspired by Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) that finds a detective trails a woman at nighttime, a pursuit that culminates in their conflation and asks the viewer to question who is following who. “The concept came from a meditation on the journey which led me to have a solo project, a journey which involved searching for myself, striving for some true essence, and realizing that this will naturally happen and isn’t something I need to force.”
Messages gets: 📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷/10.
Jane Penny – Messages [Music Video]
