Montreal’s ALIAS Drops Surreal New Music Video For Single “I Won’t Go To Heaven And That’s Alright”
Multi-instrumentalist and composer Emmanuel Alias has spent the majority of his career jazz and film scoring, most notably contributing music to the HBO shows Big Little Lies and Sharp Objects, as well as Une autre histoire, Hubert et Fanny, Cerebrum, and Mon fils (ICI Télé), the feature film Jouliks, and numerous Cirque du Soleil projects. At the same time, he has maintained a variety of projects that fulfill his need to explore different genres, releasing punk, hip-hop, and ambient albums under different cryptonyms. Shifting gears into the psych-rock world for his latest project ALIAS, the Montreal-based artist has released his new single “I Won’t Go To Heaven And That’s Alright”.
Jack White-tier fuzz and Nashville-style riffs come out from his fingertips, as he cooly sings about accepting his mistakes. On the track and video, ALIAS explains, “It’s a sad story of a lonely wedding, a dramedy about a loner getting married without a bride. All the intentions were good and everything was set, until the main character realizes he’s alone. I really wanted to focus on the mood, building the sense of the character pretending to be happy, but between the kitsch and fuzz, smiles and madness, he knows that he won’t go to heaven, but guess what…that’s alright“. Creating an almost dream-like sense of paranoia and absurdity, the music video is an entertaining and explosive reflective of the human psyche, topped off by a colossal finish from Alias.
Watch the music video for “I Won’t Go To Heaven” below:
