Romy unveils 'The Sea', the latest slice from her forthcoming debut solo record
Romy has shared the latest offering from her highly-anticipated debut solo album.
Co-produced by Fred Again.. and Stuart Price, the dance-leaning cut, titled 'The Sea', finds the singer in a romantic mood as she reflects on finding and losing love by the ocean.
The single is accompanied by a cinematic music video courtesy of director Mollie Mills, starring Romy alongside her wife and longtime visual collaborator Vic Lentaigne.
“Romy always evokes this feeling of euphoria – and with this track specifically touching on wrestles of romance – through a queer lens, it intuitively evoked something about this kind of intertwinement of bodies, both in intimacy and in club culture," says Mills.
"I had loosely referenced Louise Bourgeois’ sculpture 'The Couple' which actualises that soul-rupturing entanglement of falling in love – and this is what we wanted to feel in these seascape scenes. This light, blissful, euphoric togetherness that happens alongside these memory slices of euro-heaven. There’s a power that can live in the simplicity of these domestic moments between two queer bodies too – when I think back to the loves of summers past, the memories I have are always the small details, a billowing curtain or a lovers hair after they shower”.
The xx member's new album 'Mid Air' is due for release on September 8 via Young.
Watch the music video for 'The Sea' below:
