Issy Wood - Cries Real Tears! (2020) Hi-Res

U.K. painter Issy Wood has released her introspective debut self-written/produced track and video “Cry / Fun” via Mark Ronson’s Zelig Records. “Cry / Fun” is the first track off her forthcoming EP, Cries Real Tears!

Cry / Fun and this EP are an experiment in switching mediums,” said Issy. “Cry / Fun more or less gives itself away in the title – for me the track, and perhaps the EP in general, is my confessing to mistaking pain for pleasure, or a trap for freedom in relationships, including the one with myself. I’m hoping these songs can do for other people what visuals alone don’t always manage to do.”

“The line that stuck in my head initially was ‘I’ve got a taste for pain’ and how the protagonist of the song was aware of their emotional responses but remained detached from them,” said Stuart in regards to the creation of the video. “I wanted the character in the video to represent something with extremely limited agency, other than to play out the experiment.”