annie hamilton - chainmail

annie hamilton’s “chainmail” draws us in with a pulsating synth line and the promise of something a little otherworldly. There’s an enchanting pull to it, and Hamilton gives that feeling a physical setting in the accompanying video: a handmade cave built in her garage, complete with bats and a shadow self carrying a sparkling bow and arrow. Her description of her creative world as “sunshine gothic” feels right at home here.

hamilton explains how the song took shape:

“This song came flowing in one day during a solo writing trip in Paris, where I locked myself in an apartment, turned off my phone, tapped out of reality and wrote an album. I set up a DIY recording studio on the kitchen table with a couple of synths, a couple of guitars and a mic. I started with the opening pulsating synth line and the rest of the song fell out of me intuitively, without overthinking, like a stream of consciousness. Once I got home, I went down to Naarm/Melbourne to work on it with Alice Ivy in her beautiful studio by the river. I wanted it to feel like a slow descent down a sandstone spiral staircase into an underground goblin rave."

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