Last October Little Indie premiered 'Escape', the debut single by Tristan Irvine, aka Joy Surrender.
The 25-year-old, Winchester-based songwriter/producer soon got blogosphere talking about his impressively hypnotic delivery, with understated piano accompaniment on the slow-building ‘Escape'; a shimmering lament, just short of five minutes that charts, "a transition in life, that specific moment in time when somebody is trying to leave the past behind (struggling) and moving on into a future that seems very uncertain".
Likewise, 'Chains' too impresses with its starkness. The track forms the B-side to the re-released 'Escape', which is out on May 3 via iTunes and all the other major digital retailers.
"I wanted to create something that would showcase a different side of Joy Surrender," explains Irvine. "Musically, where 'Escape' featured a wall of sound, pounding drums and shimmering reverbs, 'Chains' features a sparse mix of vocals, electric guitar and vocoder."
The video, below, to 'Chains' is the minimal counterpart to the maximalism of 'Escape', stripping away the bright adornments and leaving just the artist to convey the song with just an electric guitar in a bare white room.
The concept for the video came first, inspiring that arrangement of the song, says Irvine. "The original version - which I recorded as part of a mini-album I’m working on - features a very dense mix of sounds, so I had to really go back to basics and focus on the core of the song. Lyrically, it’s about confronting somebody’s ghost, that’s the reason why I wanted to give a sense of transparency through the visuals and avoid standing in dark rooms, hiding behind enigmatic lights."
Both 'Escape' and 'Chains' demonstrate haunting dream-pop sensibilities created on blissful, minimalistic soundscapes.
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