Ann Arbor Singer-Songwriter Elisabeth Pixley-Fink Premiere New Music Video

“As an independent artist, they have so many restrictions, but I actually enjoy them …”

The singer-songwriter Elisabeth Pixley-Fink, based in Ann Arbor, describes that countless artists always know and appreciate how the need to invent and how the lack of luxury of certain resources sponts fertile spontaneity. This was particularly true for the filming of Pixley-Fink's new music video, as she and director Pia Lu only had four hours to film it.

“We shot it in my parents back yard while they were on the road for an afternoon,” said Pixley-Fink and referred to the fascinating graphics for their latest single “Fearless and the Pure”, which was premiered last Friday. Using inner vestibules, entrances, strict fields and even a carefully broken mirror, they could effectively end at sunset.

“Fearless and the Pure” is in full length on Pixley-Fink's latest album, “Heart's theater”, Which fell on February 28th. This is her second album in full length since he appeared in the music scene in Michigan more than a decade ago, together with four EPS (which you can find on band camp). Pixley-Fink is known for changing from rich resonants and melodic folk ballads in melodic ambient population balls to coarse-grained garage rock-gusto.

Inspired by a masterful mix of Riot Grrrl, ambient silence and the work of the Queer Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca “Heart's theater“” Is 12 songs of a heart that gives its own skin. Pixley-Fink admitted: “… It is a hard album for me that I can talk about because it came from the process of experiencing a serious, painful growth and transformation.

“… The title comes from this poem by Lorca, 'Corazon Nuevo', which conjures up this picture of a person who holds her 'heart's kin' in her hands, like a snake that shouts his skin”, full of honey and wounds …, so it is love and sweet and pain. That's what the album is about – the sweetness and the pain of being in relationships with other people, be it romantic or not. I also consider Heartskin as a membrane that we all have over our chest. This is how we combine with other people – how we can create loving limits, but also how we manage people. ”

Pixley-Fink said that she wanted an important visual element of the video to “regain the color red, as research into femininity, purity and seduction or sexuality”.