Today, we have the premiere of two versions of the new single ‘Coming Up For Air’ by Black Box Recorder‘s Sarah Nixey. It’s taken from her forthcoming album Night Walks ‘Coming Up For Air’ here:
Watch the video for ‘Coming Up For Air’, its a sophisticated pop palette is garnished by Nixey’s elegant balance of bittersweet spoken word narratives and evocative chorus lines.
Sarah Nixey explains further about the video: ‘“Coming Up For Air” is about teenage mental health and parental love. I wanted the video to reflect the message of the song – “Life is magical, grab it with both hands” – which is the antithesis of Black Box Recorder’s ‘Child Psychology”.
The ‘Coming Up For Air’ video references Black Box Recorder’s ‘Child Psychology”‘ video – laying in water, heads together.
“Night Walks is a glittering, nocturnal album, written whilst struggling with insomnia, the songs are set in a metropolitan sub-world where everyone dodges the dangers of reality. The lyrics describe episodes that take place over one night, spanning several decades, in a tiny enclave, at the heart of London’s bohemia.”
Nixey won over audiences as the singer of darkly glamorous pop group Black Box Recorder at the turn of the 21st Century, along with fellow
band members Luke Haines (The Auteurs) and John Moore (The Jesus and Mary Chain). The band just released a box set of all three albums called Life Is Unfair via One Little Indian.
Since then, Nixey has honed her own musical voice with an eclectic solo career. Night Walks arrives seven years since her second solo album Brave Tin Soldiers. She released her solo album Sing, Memory, in 2007
