First off, I like this guy's music. Fortunate enough to catch him at the Propeller EP launch, but he's proved elusive since, cancelling both the Next Big Thing gig in February and his Camden Crawl appearance. Still forgive him though, and it's in no small part because of this track.
The video could have gone anywhere really, the track is capable of carrying weaker ideas, fortunately they put some thought into it. In taking the 'male seahorse' lyric and making it the narrative is s sweet idea and compliments the track well. The reveal itself doesn't come until around 1:45 into the song, all the while beforehand you assume this is another typical 'emotional chap down on his luck misses someone' narrative, before this is tipped on it's head and your forced to apply sympathy previously reserved for women onto this fragile male, played by Iain Woods, aka Psychologist, himself.
The song itself has it's quiet moments, before building to a dramatic climax. The video mirrors this by playing with the lines ‘Take me out of my depth / Make me tread water / Get out of breath / And ward off my death” which, during the water breaking/childbirth scenes can be interpreted one way as the strength required by expecting parents entering unknown territory, but take on a softer and more sentimental meaning when he's playing with his new child at the end.
Technically nothing fancy. Nice clean shots and a bit of seahorse archive used to symbolise the male child birth elements, but nothing more. Not that it needs it.
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