Videos : Autre Ne Veu feat. Mykki Blanco : Counting
Videos : Autre Ne Veu feat. Mykki Blanco : Counting
Who Is Autre Ne Veut?
Brooklyn bedroom musician Arthur Ashin, aka Autre Ne Veut, debuted in 2010 with a self-titled full-length created under a veil. He came on the scene as an anonymous producer of R&B-indebted to lo-fi and was naturally considered alongside How to Dress Well. But the songs on that full-length suggested a deeper reservoir of songcraft and less focus on mood, and the first single off his upcoming full-length Anxiety delivers on that promise.
"Everything you say is breaking up/ This is not a time for this to stop", he sings on "Counting". "I'm counting on the idea that you'll stay." Was the song penned during the traumatic, heaving final days of a romantic relationship? Nope: these are lyrics about calling his dying grandmother, as Ashin told me in a recent interview. "Counting" pairs an earnest falsetto with a lush groove that would not be out of place on a Pure Moods compilation, and the results are pure catharsis for any type of death-- romantic, or otherwise.
Countng Review
Besides the latest news on Autre Ne Vaut's removal of Edvard Munch's "The Scream" from the cover art of his forthcoming Anxiety album, the music video for "Counting" was released a few days ago. Brooklyn resident and R&B experimentalist, Autre Ne Vaut, teamed up with a fellow New Yorker, cosmic rapper, Mykki Blanco, on the visuals and a new verse for his single.
Directed by David Riley, the music video for "Counting" is about the death of Autre Ne Veut's grandmother. As the female harmonies arrive with Autre Ne Veut's soulful falsetto, you are placed in a hospital with him and Mykki Blanco looking heavyhearted and grieved. The added verse from Mykki Blanco is nothing like the anthemic party words from his last mixtape but intimate and ending with a striving repetition of "I need you right now". "Counting" is a powerful track with or without Blanco's addition just as the cover art of Anxiety is powerful with or without "The Scream".
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