Indie Singer/Songwriter Amelia Jackie

Announces Video/Single “All Around Town” & Debut Record

‘You Can’t Fuck The Internet’ out April 8

private link:  full album

RIYL: Waxahatchee, Mazzy Star, Lucinda Williams, Cat Power

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“When I was a young girl, one day I was absent-mindedly flipping through Being and Nothingness and I stumbled on a part about how “the feminine” is something that oozes and sucks and traps you with it’s slippery nature,” Amelia Jackie explains. “Whoever wrote that book found these qualities detestable in a way that was so enticing to me that I decided right then that slippery was not only who I was, but exactly who I wanted to become, someone that spills and oozes and isn’t concerned with being trapped in my own container. This song is an ode to ooze and gushiness, to darkness, to a kaleidoscopic and utterly unstable vision of femininity.”

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The video was recorded and produced by New Orlean’s video artist Lucia Honey. It stars Ellery Neon and Jee Whatever, whose performances depict heartache’s sensual excess: Tears become wine, thickly painted lips overflow amid a waterfall of white sugar. “Ellery is portraying this bashful, hilarious creature-gender and Jee’s movement is so luscious and painful,” Jackie explains, “The ambivalence of pleasure and suffering trips and slips all over itself.”

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The visuals are, quite literally, a representation of kaleidoscopic femininity, hands and faces fade into each other and into darkness, like the characters are never exactly whole, but each are ghosts of one another. The song’s cherry on top is Ava Jarden’s grimy electric guitar. It was recorded in the middle of the afternoon in the middle of July, in a windowless garage in LA, with the door cranked shut. “We ran an extension cord underneath the door,” Jackie says, “but there was no light and no air conditioning. The weather in the lyrics is actually living in the recording.”

 
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