Love and loss are two aspects of life we’re all familiar with – loss particularly so to and for many over the last couple of years – and both makeup key parts of the new single from singer-songwriter Chris Garneau called “Overexposure.” It’s a powerful, penetrating and also rather poignant track, with the accompanying video having been directed by Samuel Stonefield.
The track was co-produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by Benoit Bel who has worked with the likes of Kate Nash and Bjork, with the last incarnation of “Overexposure” being made, as Chris explains: ”…during a fall residency at a chateau in a remote, bucolic part of France. I was coming up on my fortieth birthday – a moment that inevitably inspires reflection. I found myself going back and looking through old notes and journals. I usually write about the right now – the current challenges facing me – but in this instance, I collected fragments and stories from different moments of my past, both distant and more recent.”
He goes on: “A narrator for the song started to emerge: a person trapped in a pattern of repetitive, cyclical thinking. Stuck in the past, this was someone overexposing themself to their own pain, the result being life-defining loss. In other words, the kind of break-up that leaves you on the floor, without a sense of self or direction. The resolve is ambiguous – the build-up at the end of the song makes space for this dichotomy – between surrendering to the notion that this love will never come back and the inability to accept a bitter reality.”
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