Earlier this year, Cincinnati songwriter Mol Sullivan released GOOSE, a full-length album which painted a picture of person existing in the strange spaces between things, be that the fragile days of early sobriety or the slightly unreal period which follows the end of a relationship. ‘Still Tryin’ used “a hushed, bruised style to welcome the listener into a raw period of life,” as we wrote previously, “but there’s a glimmer of something else too, a newfound freedom to move towards some better future. Set deep in those early days of a new beginning where everything feels possible yet tenuous and a little too vivid to bear.” The mood was perhaps best captured by title track. “Oh, I don’t know, honestly / How this is supposed to go,” Sullivan sang:
To keep the devil in me
From her big top, one-man show
A little slip, a little kiss
A little tumble, and a dive-
Head first into a tidal pool
much too shallow to survive
To celebrate the six month anniversary of GOOSE, Mol Sullivan has returned with a brand new video for the single ‘Cautiously’. Directed by Sullivan herself along with Josh Evert, the video pushes further into the emotional landscape of the track to bring to life the paradoxical sensations at the end of a relationship, where everything is at once too physical yet somehow intangible too. “The concept for the ‘Cautiously’ music video came about after experiencing a series of depressive freezes after a partner had moved out of the house,” Sullivan explains:
I realized while I stood motionless in my living room for what seemed like twenty minutes, that I had been suspended in several little vignettes around the house that day—locked in a stare, mind blank—while trying to put the pieces of my life back together. Some of these scenes are mid-action, attention taken away from whatever activity, caught in that state of being firmly planted while somehow slipping out of body.
GOOSE is out now and available from the Mol Sullivan Bandcamp page.