S.Lo on September 29th, 2021

0

Recent Saddest Factory signee Scruffpuppie (née JJ Shurbet) releases the video today for their new single, “Paint.”

It’s the second song for the artist on Phoebe Bridgers’ imprint via Dead Oceans, produced by Marshall Vore, with the poetic video directed by Shurbet’s longtime visual collaborator Mowgly Lee.

The singer-songwriter began self-releasing covers and original songs four years ago and during the pandemic lockdown last year released both an experimental, self-ascribed “hyperpop” album, “Junction 15,” under their Grimtweakr moniker in addition to the lush and painterly, acoustic guitar-driven EP “Never Coming Home” via Psychic Music. After releasing the video for “Never Coming Home” off the latter release last October, they entered rehab.

The new single proffers a hypnotic contrition for letting an addiction cloud and cause chaos in their life. “‘Paint’ is an emotional ballad, talking a lot about the relationship I had with drugs and how they controlled the other relationships I had in my life,” said the artist. “In the song I say ‘How am I the bigger one / when I never took out my gun/ and played along to all your games/ but never really felt the same’ which draws a lot from how my relationship with drugs was so one-sided, how I never meant to play along to the game they put in front of me, but how it was almost impossible not to.”

||| Watch: The video for “Paint”

||| Also: Watch the video for “Assignment Song”