Norwegian-Irish artist Tara Nome Doyle delivers the captivating new video for 'Spider'
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Following on from the release of her highly-praised second album ‘Værmin’ (pronounced Vermin) through BMG Rights Management’s Modern Recordings imprint, Berlin-based Norwegian-Irish singer-songwriter Tara Nome Doyle has now unveiled the official video for one of the record’s standout offerings, ‘Spider’.
Created by Sonja Stadelmaier, the visuals for ‘Spider’ aim to reflect the intimate visual imagery that has always inspired Tara’s work over the years. Matching the energy of the original song’s bold and atmospheric texture, the new video delivers a wonderfully rich and passionate lens into the artist’s own persona, conjuring a vivid experience throughout.
Speaking about the video, she said, "In 'Spider' I wanted to capture the desperation and instability that follow rejection. The image of a long-legged spider weaving its web in an attempt to recapture the object of its desire - a fly- seemed very fitting to me and this honest, unpolished dynamic makes 'Spider' one of the most personal songs on my new record 'Værmin'.
"The music video for 'Spider' was created by Sonja Stadelmaier, whose creative vision and photography have been very influential in my visual identity since my first release in 2018. 'Spider' is a very tense and unsettling ballad and we wanted to translate these emotions into a performance-driven music video. There is an insect-like quality to my movements and positions, as well as to the harsh cuts between the scenes that Sonja implemented."
Tara Nome Doyle is a 24-year old singer-songwriter with Norwegian-Irish roots. In April 2018 her first release, the song ‘Down with You’, came out. Since then it has been streamed more than four million times. More singles and an EP called ‘Dandelion’ followed. In January 2020 her debut album ‘Alchemy’ was celebrated by the German press (“… like Kate Bush singing songs by Nick Cave at Berghain”, SPIEGEL).
Doyle's middle name, Nome, is pronounced ‘Noo-meh’ in Norwegian and ‘No Me’ in English.
In spring 2021 she co-wrote a song with Isobel Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, Emma) for the feature film ‘Munich - The Edge Of War’ by Christian Schwochow (The Crown, Je Suis Karl). In October 2021, this Netflix USA production, starring Jeremy Irons, premiered at the London Film Festival. In the film, which had its theatrical release in North America, UK, Germany and Spain on January 7th is now available to stream on Netflix, Doyle can be seen performing the song she co-wrote specifically for the scene, singing in German for the first time. In the end credits a fully orchestrated, English-language version of the song was used. In July 2021 the EP ‘The Moments We Keep’, which she co-wrote and co-produced with the Italian pianist Federico Albanese, came out on Mercury KX. In late 2020 she released recordings with Malakoff Kowalski (‘Bad Dreams’) and 1k Flowers (‘Clemency’).
On ‘Værmin’ Doyle tells a tragic love story, rich in symbolism and nuances, orchestrated with piano, violin and synthesizer and sometimes pulsating beats – and with singing that is both intense and varied, sometimes angelic, sometimes rough and threatening. ‘Værmin’ is touchingly beautiful – and yet it also celebrates the supposed ugliness that lives in all of us and that we like to suppress and ignore. All songs are named after animals that are considered undesirable pests: leeches, caterpillars, snails and worms. ‘Værmin’ celebrates their beauty and thus also asks a political question: What would happen if we “welcomed” these vermin instead of rejecting them? Wouldn't we then arrive at a much richer, balanced relationship with ourselves, to a more differentiated relationship to the world around us and to other people? ‘Værmin’ is a grand, wise, deeply moving album. And the songs get stuck in your head immediately, pulling you into their depths: existential music by an extraordinary artist.
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