Video: Talker, ‘Suck Up’

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Talker (Photo by Kiersten Friesen)

In her early work under the name Talker, singer-songwriter Celeste Tauchar has laid bare her emotions, contradictions and indiscretions in songs that slip from pretty to gritty in a heartbeat.

That her grunge-pop self-portraits are relatable makes for high drama. That she casts herself as a work-in-progress makes every step Talker has taken since releasing the “Horror Films” EP a year ago worth watching.

And, yes, “I’m still such a mess,” she confides in the new single “Suck Up,” a churning rocker in which she wrestles with identity issues and the frustrations with being “a suck up to myself.” The tune, another of Talker’s collaborations with songwriter-producer Dan Sadin, is the follow-up to last year’s “Learning The Feeling” and “Keep Me Safe.” They will appear on the forthcoming EP, “Wax.”

The video for “Suck Up,” directed by Jake Goble and filmed in part at the Lodge Room, offers glimpses of the artist who frets: “I’m a thousand versions of myself when I wake up / And I don’t think any of them will ever be enough.”

||| Watch: The video for “Suck Up”

||| Also: Stream the song here

||| Live: Talker plays the Bootleg Theater on March 8, along with I’m Glad It’s You, Cuffed Up and Glacier Veins. Tickets.

||| Previously: “Learning the Feeling,” “Keep Me Safe,” live at the Hi Hat, “Intimidated”