"kiss me, please me, need me.... was this supposed to happen...?"
On her new single, "Force Of Habit", Los Angeles based, Toronto bred bedroom pop / R&B indie artist Abby Sage crafts sounds that float on percolating rhythms and her absolutely captivating vocal aesthetic. The result has the sense of Abby waking to a new day, the gentle tensions feel like outstretching arms and wiping the sleep from your eyes. As the grooves filter in with swelling bits of organic piano chords, rolling bass lines, drones (and blips) of electronica, and an engine of tonally deep electric guitars you feel carried away. The whole while Abby's voice lulls you into a lovely trance.
Of the song and accompanying Official Video, she shares:
“I wrote about the desire for space & the push and pull a relationship brings. It’s centered around the idea of stretching yourself and your partner too thin (stretched you out like elastic, figured you out every last bit). You reach that point of stay or go & by ‘force of habit’ you stay. Ultimately you want to break the habit & free yourself from something repetitive and cyclical, but habits & comfort hold you back.”
Abby adds, “I planned out the video with my lovely friend Aidan. Aidan came to me with this incredible vision board referencing choreographer Pina Bausch whose work I feel is so humanistic, and jarring and who famously said, ‘I am not interested in how people move, but in what moves them.’ The video we created follows a journey of dependency and choice. I’m portrayed as someone who can’t hold themselves up without the help of another, hence the consistent falling and wavering. The other (Ryan) has to make the decision of whether to keep going back to catch me every time I fall, realizing that I need his support to stand. We found this concept fit the message of ‘Force of Habit’ since it plays heavily into choice, patterns, and dependency. ‘Fall right into my habits.’”
On her new single, "Force Of Habit", Los Angeles based, Toronto bred bedroom pop / R&B indie artist Abby Sage crafts sounds that float on percolating rhythms and her absolutely captivating vocal aesthetic. The result has the sense of Abby waking to a new day, the gentle tensions feel like outstretching arms and wiping the sleep from your eyes. As the grooves filter in with swelling bits of organic piano chords, rolling bass lines, drones (and blips) of electronica, and an engine of tonally deep electric guitars you feel carried away. The whole while Abby's voice lulls you into a lovely trance.
Of the song and accompanying Official Video, she shares:
“I wrote about the desire for space & the push and pull a relationship brings. It’s centered around the idea of stretching yourself and your partner too thin (stretched you out like elastic, figured you out every last bit). You reach that point of stay or go & by ‘force of habit’ you stay. Ultimately you want to break the habit & free yourself from something repetitive and cyclical, but habits & comfort hold you back.”
Abby adds, “I planned out the video with my lovely friend Aidan. Aidan came to me with this incredible vision board referencing choreographer Pina Bausch whose work I feel is so humanistic, and jarring and who famously said, ‘I am not interested in how people move, but in what moves them.’ The video we created follows a journey of dependency and choice. I’m portrayed as someone who can’t hold themselves up without the help of another, hence the consistent falling and wavering. The other (Ryan) has to make the decision of whether to keep going back to catch me every time I fall, realizing that I need his support to stand. We found this concept fit the message of ‘Force of Habit’ since it plays heavily into choice, patterns, and dependency. ‘Fall right into my habits.’”
On days, especially emotionally heavy ones, I know I will find myself coming back to this song. Even though the complex themes of stretching past the point of comfort in our lives is filled with hard and soft tensions, "Force of Habit" feels meditative to me.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.facebook.com/AbbySageMusic
https://www.instagram.com/applesage/
https://soundcloud.com/abby-sage
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4aej3kKLxSLM0WauTSfZ7k?si=v65Jh8UWTK6VCaV7gkiHvA&nd=1
Growing up watching her dad perform at various clubs around Toronto, Abby Sage was enchanted by the magic of the stage and crowd, and felt the pull towards creating something her own. She began writing and recording tracks with her musician dad, and by the start of high school, she was beginning to post her music to Soundcloud in secret —that is until she accidentally released a track publicly. The next morning, her phone was flooded with messages, and like an act of divine intervention, Abby says, “it’s what sparked the confidence to keep going.” A few years later, during one of her trips back to her hometown in Canada from Los Angeles, she was connected to a group of producers through a mutual family friend. After a successful test run in the studio, Abby and producer Jeff Hazin continued their creative partnership, and he is now a key collaborator for all of Abby’s work.
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.facebook.com/AbbySageMusic
https://www.instagram.com/applesage/
https://soundcloud.com/abby-sage
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4aej3kKLxSLM0WauTSfZ7k?si=v65Jh8UWTK6VCaV7gkiHvA&nd=1
Growing up watching her dad perform at various clubs around Toronto, Abby Sage was enchanted by the magic of the stage and crowd, and felt the pull towards creating something her own. She began writing and recording tracks with her musician dad, and by the start of high school, she was beginning to post her music to Soundcloud in secret —that is until she accidentally released a track publicly. The next morning, her phone was flooded with messages, and like an act of divine intervention, Abby says, “it’s what sparked the confidence to keep going.” A few years later, during one of her trips back to her hometown in Canada from Los Angeles, she was connected to a group of producers through a mutual family friend. After a successful test run in the studio, Abby and producer Jeff Hazin continued their creative partnership, and he is now a key collaborator for all of Abby’s work.
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