South London-based multidisciplinary artist Clara Mann shares ‘Oblivion’, taken from her upcoming album Wishbone, out 23 October via state51.
‘Oblivion’ explores the what-ifs of love through a coin toss of destiny, where the decision is already made before it lands. Mann’s vocals, weightless yet heavy, move against wistful strings, creating a tension between lightness and emotional weight.
“Loving is accepting the light and the dark of something, or of someone – often when someone burns very bright, it’s matched by a great capacity for heaviness. Someone said to me, at a very heightened time in my life, that sometimes falling in love feels like looking into oblivion’. I went home and wrote the first verses of this song- and then I let it be for a few months, unable, at that point, to resolve it.
Clara Mann
A few months down the line after falling in love, I looked back and realised that there must have been a time when I could have chosen a different path for myself, and for us, but I don’t know where that crossroads was, and I don’t recall ever actively making a decision. Love was an inevitability, in some sense, something I already knew was going to happen, from the very start. I finished the song that day.
‘Oblivion’ is about tossing a coin and realising, as it turns, that you’ve already made your decision.”
Tour dates:
30.10 – Echolot | Lucerne, Switzerland
15.11 – The Sugar Club | Dublin, Ireland, with Jasmine Wood
24.11 – Pianodrome | Edinburgh, United Kingdom, with Heka
25.11 – Halle at St Michaels | Manchester, United Kingdom, with Heka
28.11 – Outside | Bantham, United Kingdom, with Heka
29.11 – Lantern Hall at Bristol Beacon | Bristol, United Kingdom, with Kevin Fowley
04.12 – St Matthias Church | London, United Kingdom, with Kevin Fowley
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