Having spent years playing solo shows and singing with bands like U.S. Girls and Badge Époque Ensemble, Toronto art-folk songwriter Dorothea Paas is finally releasing her debut LP, Anything Can't Happen, on May 7. Having already shared the title track, she's now rolled out a video for album cut "Container."
The song is a slow-paced ballad, its minimal arrangement of abstract chords and honeyed vocal runs flecked with twinkling textures and pitter-patter drums. In a statement, Paas revealed that it's a "love song" of sorts about her own anxiety, featuring a melody inspired by Karen Dalton's "Something on Your Mind."
"That song has such a home in the main chord," she said. "I wanted my song to have a sense of 'home' to continually re-centre the stream-of-consciousness lyrics that take the listener around the spiral. The chords and vocal melodies wander, but we always return to the warm C chord to move us possibly toward some conclusion, or maybe ground us as we move further into the question."
It comes with a simple video directed by Ryan Al-Hage. The clip consists of a single slo-mo shot of Paas singing while spinning around on a playground.
Paas was recently part of Exclaim!'s photo gallery of musical guilty pleasures.
The song is a slow-paced ballad, its minimal arrangement of abstract chords and honeyed vocal runs flecked with twinkling textures and pitter-patter drums. In a statement, Paas revealed that it's a "love song" of sorts about her own anxiety, featuring a melody inspired by Karen Dalton's "Something on Your Mind."
"That song has such a home in the main chord," she said. "I wanted my song to have a sense of 'home' to continually re-centre the stream-of-consciousness lyrics that take the listener around the spiral. The chords and vocal melodies wander, but we always return to the warm C chord to move us possibly toward some conclusion, or maybe ground us as we move further into the question."
It comes with a simple video directed by Ryan Al-Hage. The clip consists of a single slo-mo shot of Paas singing while spinning around on a playground.
Paas was recently part of Exclaim!'s photo gallery of musical guilty pleasures.
