Mipso “Let A Little Light In” With Nostalga-Filled Music Video; New LP Out October 16
For the average person, childhood memories can be a complicated thing. The unsureness and messiness of recall and the gaps formed from thousands of hours lost to time can leave holes and stir up conflicted emotions of joy and sadness. For alternative folk group Mipso, nostalgia is a strange thing.
Band member Joseph Terrell elaborates, “I think there’s a double strangeness in looking back on our childhoods from our late twenties. For one thing, the memories themselves are fuzzy, deceitful. And then all the strongest emotions I can access – the moments of joy and triumph or heartbreak–feel unfamiliar, like I can’t see the world that way anymore.”
“I guess I’m old enough now to feel totally disillusioned about the politics and culture of the ‘90s – which is to say I’m seeing the era clearly! – but still it’s hard not to miss the wide-eyed wonder of being a kid.” Terrell laughs, “There’s probably a German word for this kind of negative nostalgia.”
For their new music video and single “Let A Little Light In”, the North Carolina four-piece bring that conflict to life with deadpan reaction to childhood activities. Met with their four-part vocal arrangements and slow-burning alt-folk rock sound, the new single has a way of matching the mix-match of feelings nostalgia brings.
Bandmate Libby Rodenbough adds, “It was really tempting to take this song in a kind of familiar, bluesy direction, but we fought the temptation and tried to take into a weirder, quirkier zone. Joseph’s lyrics are like that; they describe nostalgia for childhood in a way it often feels to me: sort of uncomfortable and sad in an inscrutable way, but charged with the emotional memory of something beautiful.”
You can hear the single and more on the popular ‘Starting Line-Up’ playlist on Spotify, or watch the video below:
