The world of Canary Complex is one built from a collage of all the most beautiful and romantic aspects of the modern age, not just musically speaking, but also the attitudes and approaches behind it, the ideas and inspirations that fuel it and, via the beguiling video, its visual engagement and sartorial choices. More specifically, Canary Kasey is an acolyte of the Japanese visual kei movement, which emerged in the 80s as Western musical movements such as glam and goth, baroque pop and the emotive seduction of chanson, new wave, and the visual arts were absorbed into its own traditions and culture.
For there is something achingly romantic about the sound being woven here: a dream-pop blend of sonic eloquence and creative elegance, the heightened beauty found in darkness and the seductive glow of sonic half-light that inversely illuminates. Tumbling drums gently drive, guitars shimmer, vocals are evocative, and the whole thing feels like a lucid dream.
And if the music is gorgeously sweeping, the video mirrors the aching, escapist grace of this re-imagined world: dappled light flickers over pre-Raphaelite imagery, lace dances with electric guitars, beatific beauty meets the Batcave beat, and slowly the light dims into shade.
It’s a song that sits between Japan, the band, and a visual Japanese aesthetic, between art and emotion, drama and dreamscape; it is a song that sits between the meeting of many worlds, experienced and conjured, real and imagined.
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