This Friday (April 7th) marks the release of ‘Labyrinth‘, the new album Heather Woods Broderick on Western Vinyl. Today she is sharing her new single and video, “Wherever I Go”, also our Song of the Day. The accompanying video was Directed by Jeremy Johnstone, a four-time Emmy-nominated filmmaker.
Artistic, complex, poetic, and emotionally powerful, Broderick pulls out all the stops here. Everything, from those mesmerising vocals, her storytelling abilities, and her unique recording skills (she captured the majority of the album on her own), are all winning qualities. Additionally, her music transcends genre boundaries…this is sure to open a whole new fanbase to her music.
“The video for ‘Wherever I Go’ is about the juxtaposition of having some fun, and letting go against the repetitive nature of daily life. The song has both a lot of irony and energy in it, and we wanted to reflect this visually,” Broderick explains. “The duality in the lyrics is paralleled inside the day that takes place in the video. The repetitions in daily life are playfully represented in the suburban scenes decorated by glitchy/GIF companions, and the wide open landscape shots reflect the free, pure joy that exists inside each day if you go find it. The video was conceptualized and directed by Jeremy Johnstone. Movement direction by Kacie Boblitt. It features Juliet Johnstone, Erick Eiser, Elke Shari Van den Broeck, Daniel Sparks, and Corrina Repp.”
Across Labyrinth, Broderick serves as our reflective host, subverting expectations of conventional songcraft with impressionistic language and quietly relentless explorations of the human experience that’s at once light and dark, more circular and less linear. “Many of us yearn for stillness and peace, as an escape from the movement all around us,” she explains when asked about the themes of the album. “Yet movement is perpetual, happening all the time on some level. It’s as wild as the wind, yet eternally predictable in its inevitability. It is linear in part, but infinite in its circuitry. Our lives just punctuate it.”