You Need To See Washington’s Beautifully Loose New Video For ‘Dark Parts’
It's one of the most direct and uncomplicated pop songs of the year.
Megan Washington is one of Australia’s most daring and inventive musicians.
Straddling the worlds of indie and pop, the musician has an admirably approach to songwriting, creating complex, nuanced tracks that sneak up on you.
‘Dark Parts’, her newest single, is no different. An emphatic banger with a message of vulnerability and pain at its core, it’s a thousand things all at once — an entire dining set being thrown down the stairs, and a song in the constant process of reinventing itself.
And that’s not even to mention the video that accompanies it. Drawn by Washington herself, the clip is a psychedelic explosion of colour and motion.
“I made it in an app called FlipaClip,” Washington told Music Junkee. “I started on my phone using my finger but after a couple of weeks my finger really started to hurt so I started using my iPad. Much easier! I just drew whatever came to mind, I wasn’t really thinking about it. I guess it’s automatic drawing, which is a thing, look it up and try it yourself — you’ll be amazed.”
It’s as strange and subversive as Australian pop gets, and we should drink up ever single second of it — particularly given that it’s been so long since we last heard from the popstar.
In June last year, she was all but ready to drop a new album. But at the last moment, she shelved the record, and has been sitting on it ever since.
‘Dark Parts’ is the first taste of a new record that is set to drop on August 28, this year. Watch the video in full here: