Video: Rituals of Mine, ‘Come Around Me’

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Rituals of Mine (Photo by Jeffrey LaTour)

Rituals of Mine — the name for songwriter Terra Lopez’s brooding synth-pop — is informed by her perspective as a gay woman of color in the music industry, yet also by the common experiences all humans share, such as loss, longing and mental health challenges.

The new Rituals of Mine album “Hype Nostalgia,” out Sept. 25 on Carpark Records, figures to give flight to Lopez’s full range of emotions. But if her 2019 EP “Sleeper Hold” rooted through the trauma following the death of her father and, later, her best friend, the new full-length seeks reconciliation and hope, partially by remembering the better times.

Leo Pfeifer directs the video for the new single “Come Around Me,” a song whose soft vocals belie its serious intent. “None of this fake shit when you come around me,” Lopez sings.

The video tackles a lot. “Our aim was to take themes from the record and incorporate them in various ways: the rain (representing loss/grief), the trophies room (representing the overachiever in me), the TV room (representing memory and nostalgia) and me in quarantine now (representing current day reality),” Lopez says. “For obvious reasons, nostalgia is the central theme of this record, as I am writing from an era of pre-loss and pre-grief so we wanted to bring in some surreal elements into each setting to elevate the story and make it interesting.”

The album, recorded between St. Augustine, Fla., and L.A., was made with producers Wes Jones and Dev the Goon.

||| Watch: The video for “Come Around Me”

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