Melbourne-based singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist ENOLA (they/them) shares new single ‘Strange Comfort’, via Our Golden Friend, accompanied with a video directed by Triana Hernandez (Gordi, Romero, RVG). This comes ahead of their performance at BIGSOUND in Australia next month.
Taking cues from the no-wave sounds of Joy Division and Suicide’s Alan Vega, the post-punk of IDLES and Fontaines D.C. underpinned by a background in electronic music production, ENOLA infuses hard hitting tracks with a stinging vulnerability, applying the salve to the self-inflicted wound.
‘Strange Comfort’ is bursting with punk vitality, driven by fuzzy guitars and brusque vocals, motioning forward along a knife’s edge. Centered around the resounding line, “there’s a strange comfort in us all going through the same,” it evokes an urgency of time running out.
ENOLA says of the track:
There is a comfort in knowing that suffering can be a universal experience. We are alone, yet together in our aloneness.”
The single comes with a video that captures the knife edge feeling ENOLA gets from the song – a sense of forward movement and chaos met with surrealism/something of beauty. They say, “In the film I am not playing a role or character & I’m not playing myself as I am today. I am looking back at a past self and a time & place gone. A time of fearlessness, hopelessness & rebellion.”
Director Triana Hernandez, adds “This video is inspired by various visceral memories from their teenage years. Rather than recreating the specific moments, we wanted it to feel like a dream state with snippets that tip toe around those memories. I reckon it was more important for us to focus on the feel of those flashbacks- feelings that oscillate between dark and soft, unhinged and light – and everything all at once with a strong lust for life vibe.”
Making music is where ENOLA puts their joy, their pain; where they can expose emotions and be served by them, not destroyed. “Whatever it is, I want to do it honestly. I don’t want to hide. You can’t connect when you’re not willing to be ugly and sweaty, I try to let go of any of that,” they share.
