Kevin Bronson on August 3rd, 2022

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Midweek video roundup: Watch new visuals from Winter, Louis Cole and Imaad Wasif …

WINTER, “Atonement” (feat. Hatchie)

Boasting more bounce to the ounce than her June single, “Lose You,” Samira Winter returns with the buoyant “Atonement,” the new song that introduces her forthcoming album “What Kind of Blue Are You?” (out Oct. 14 via Bar/None Records). Harriette Pilbeam and Joe Agius of Hatchie (with whom Winter will play on an Australian tour this fall) join in on this one, which like the album was produced by Joo Joo Ashworth. “Every time I hear this song a new version of the story plays out in my head — an escape, a mystery, a forbidden love,” Winter says. “By the time it reaches full climax there is a big reveal — the secret is out, the we discover who committed the crime, the two lovers find each other.” Agius, who directs the video, says: “The concept for the video immediately came to mind when working on the song together. The dark and talkative verses contrasting with the bubbly hopeful choruses really conveyed the kinda energy I wanted to translate.”

LOUIS COLE, “Let It Happen”

Vibe check: cool. Dramatic camera zooms that find Louis Cole cooing his new song “Let It Happen” in the unlikeliest of places: cooler. The song is Cole’s first solo release since 2020 and he calls it “a timeless modern power ballad classic that taps into a special feeling in between joy and pain.” It might also tap in distant, warped-by-time Beach Boys memories. Cole, who’s been a staple in what is known as L.A.’s “jazz-adjacent” scene, teased on social media in June that he has a new album in the works. For now, there’s the “Let It Happen” video, which he directed and which was filmed by cinematographers Fuensanta and Genevieve Artadi (Cole’s bandmate in Knower).

IMAAD WASIF, “Fader”

Think of this lovely video for “Fader” as a public service announcement: Imaad Wasif’s sixth album, “So Long Mr. Fear,” has been picked up by the Sonic Ritual label and will be released Aug. 9. It’s a well-deserved fate for an album that Wasif originally self-released in January [everything we said about it here stands]. In director Gillian Garcia’s video, Wasif serenades a couple on a grand piano. The tilaka painted on Wasif’s forehead is a cultural reminder of his “personal secular spiritual beliefs.” He says, “The mark is worn as a direct confrontation of a philosophically diametric upbringing: My mother Hindu and my father Muslim.” Adds Garcia: “I imagine ‘Fader’ as the song you hear playing inside a piano lounge tucked in a discreet strip mall. Inside you find a hidden world — a mystifying person plays the piano and sings in a corner while a lone couple dance underneath a disco ball.”