Edith Judith are a Chicago-based indie folk duo featuring songwriter/singer/bassist Katie Ernst and multi-instrumentalist Dustin Laurenzi. Today they are sharing the video for their new single “Bridge”, the final single to be released from their debut album Bones and Structure (14th October – Ruination Record Co). If you enjoy the likes of Rozi Plain or This is the Kit, you’ll love this…
Bridge
You said you dreamed last night of crossing a bridge.
I thought we’d wait awhile, til things could settle down.
We caught ourselves dancing slow, to shift our wait around.
We’re not going anywhere.
It’s an enchanting yet open-ended song, with arrangements that are both dreamy and beautifully unconventional, highlighting their own ambiguity and unsettled approach to creating music. “Are we not going anywhere because we’re such a strong unit?” Ernst poses. “Or are we not going anywhere because it’s a dead end? The many meanings that a word can have is something that is incredibly compelling to me personally, and I try to let people take whatever they need from a song without imposing too much of an agenda.”
Ernst says “I imagine that line ‘we’re not going anywhere’ as both a resignation to the stuckness of our situation and as a feeling of growing stronger and closer together as a partnership. Despite being a generally joyful person, I do have a tendency to imagine worst case scenarios… you may dream about crossing a bridge, but I am having visions of the bottom of the river…”
Ernst and Laurenzi started the band in their Chicago apartment during the first months of the pandemic, which certainly adds another twist to the phrase, “We’re not going anywhere.” “We were in this weird time when you didn’t know what was going on,” says Ernst. “Was it good to get a time out from life? Or were we all gonna die? You can swim in that ambiguity.”
The band teamed up with Chicago-based filmmaker Sean Pierce for a cinematic music video that reflects the dreamy vibe of the song (Check Sean out on Instagram here).
Stream and pre-order Bones and Structure from Ruination Record Co. (14th October 2022) https://edithjudith.bandcamp.com/
p.s. The main photo is by Maren Celest whose photography I love – highly recommended. More here: http://marencelest.com/