Video: Deebs & Jarell Perry, ‘Relapse’

Kevin Bronson on December 17th, 2015

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The glitchy new video for “Relapse” — a song from the “Shift” EP by L.A. singer Jarell Perry and Canadian producer Deebs — marks the directorial debut of Yoshino, the photographer-turned-podcast host who collaborated with FX editor Ben Reyes on the project. After a start in elegant black-and-white, the video devolves (evolves?), using a process called datamoshing, into pixelated shapes derived from modern dance. The effects serve the song’s overriding theme of conflicted female identity. “I’ve seen a lot of close friends, especially young women, deal with limiting beliefs about who they are and who they can be outside of a toxic relationship,” Perry explains. “It’s a battle they are fighting with themselves, and for me it was important that the visuals represent that tension (and liberation) in a more unconventional way.” Perry’s plans for 2016 include a new media venture and personal development brand Still Mind; Deebs, meanwhile, has relocated from Toronto to Edinburgh, Scotland, and plans to release a new single via Trapdoor and a mixtape for Bored Kids Who Draw.

||| Watch: The video for “Relapse”