Video: Talker, ‘Learning the Feeling’
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“What has silence done for me,” Celeste Tauchar asks rhetorically in “Learning the Feeling,” the new single from her grunge-pop project Talker. In her case, bottling up her emotions has left her “blue in the face” and ready to let them all out.
So, guitars blazing, she does, in Talker’s boldest statement yet. The song is the second single since February’s release of her debut EP, “Horror Films,” a five-song collection that found the singer-songwriter taking cues from the steely-eyed rock diarists of the 1990s. In the video for “Learning the Feeling,” directed by Jake Goble and Krizia Vega, she’s emotionally coiled, ready to do some damage with a baseball bat.
“When you’ve been holding in your feelings for so long, sometimes you have to finally scream them out. That’s what ‘Learning the Feeling’ is for me – the musical exploration of finally being open after years of hiding behind my anxiety,” she says of the song, written with collaborators Steven Colyer and Andrew Heringer and produced by Heringer. “In ‘Keep Me Safe’ [released in October], I was holding my breath waiting for a moment of truth. ‘Learning the Feeling’ is that moment.
“I wrote ‘Learning the Feeling’ at a time when I was ready to really open myself up and be true to my feelings. My co-writers were in similar places of needing to let out some sort of heavy emotion, and we all knew that the only way to do that was to show them at full force.”
The single is out via the Common Ground Collective.
||| Watch: The video for “Learning the Feeling”
||| Also: Watch the video for “Keep Me Safe”
||| Previously: “Keep Me Safe,” live at the Hi Hat, “Intimidated”
[…] releasing her very good “Horror Films” EP and finished it with the even-better single “Learning the Feeling.” There’s at least a second EP on the way, so expect the singer-songwriter to uncork more […]