Premiere: Honey Child, ‘Sleepy Hands’

Daiana Feuer on May 2nd, 2017

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Honey Child‘s Claire McKeown and her angel choir have a new soul-soothing cocoon of a song for those suffering from politically induced anxiety. She says, “Last November was a tough month for all. We collectively sunk into a pretty negative and fearful state. I went pretty darn low and this song broke me out of that dark prison. While slipping into the possibilities of where the blatant hate in this country can reach, this beautiful complex song fell out of me, to remind that ‘there’s only one way out, and that’s through it.'” McKeown assumed full production duties on “Sleepy Hands,” a first for her, and she made a video of explosions to accompany the track. “I’m currently obsessed with the idea of doing as much with as little,” she adds. “An idea learned from one of my favorite humans, Buckminster Fuller. The video, an idea I have played with before, is a play between the beautiful and the destructive. It comes with the (stolen) subtitle: How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb.”

As it stands now, Honey Child is McKeown, Cynthia Zitter, Aimee Jacobs, Danielle Mandel, Claire Boutelle, Jacquelyn Thropay, and Dayna Richards. At their upcoming single-relase show, folks will experience their expanded instrumentation, which includes acoustic guitar, bass, flute, percussion, harmonium, piano, and ukulele.

||| Stream: “Sleepy Hands”